Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform at Discord
San Francisco, CA
$196,000–$220,500from the description
Aug 4, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a founding Staff Engineer role on Discord's brand-new Enterprise Platform team, responsible for converting manual IT and infrastructure operations into self-service software. The engineer will design and ship APIs, CLIs, and portals that expose identity management (SSO, SCIM, IAM), device fleet management, and infrastructure-as-code primitives as reusable building blocks. It suits a code-forward engineer comfortable owning greenfield systems end-to-end in Go, Python, and TypeScript.
Staff level · 3+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–75
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 5, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting explicitly states '3+ years building and operating production software' as the minimum experience gate, but the role's scope — founding engineer, cross-team platform ownership, RFC authorship, greenfield architecture — is consistent with a Staff-level position, which the title also claims.
SOC classification required a judgement call: the role writes and ships production code (Go/Python/TypeScript) to replace console-based operations, which points to 15-1252 Software Developers. However, the domain (device fleet management, IAM, endpoint configuration) overlaps with 15-1244 Systems Administrators. The posting explicitly says 'This is not a systems admin role,' reinforcing 15-1252 as primary.
Go, Python, and TypeScript are listed together as the team's language stack ('we lean on Go, Python, and TypeScript') under the requirements section. They are distinct languages emitted separately; Go is listed first as the primary with the others as alternatives only in the sense that the team uses all three — all three are captured individually.
Okta and Jamf/Intune appear under 'Bonus Points' (preferred), not in the hard-requirements block, despite Okta and Jamf being named in the role narrative as current tools. The requirements section gates on IAM experience and Terraform broadly, not on specific vendor products.
Experience with identity and access governance for non-human/workload/AI-agent principals is listed under Bonus Points and is not captured as a named technology skill (it is a domain/methodology concept, not a concrete tool).
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