Engineering Manager, Notifications

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $248k - $341k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Discord

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

Consulting • Gaming • Social Impact

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. Users can chat via text, voice, or video, and the platform is known for its emphasis on gaming. It provides customized experiences with features like custom emojis, stickers, and soundboard effects. Discord supports seamless streaming with high quality and low latency, making it ideal for gamers to hang out and play games together online. It is accessible across various devices including PC, phone, and console. Additionally, Discord places a high priority on safety and moderation, offering resources and guidelines for keeping communities safe and engaging. It is widely used for social interactions, gaming, and community building.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform, including Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure • Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably as volume and complexity grow • Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap • Use experimentation and metrics to improve notification engagement, retention, and long-term user trust • Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and engineering best practices • Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve primitives used by other teams to reach users • Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement • Report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale • 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager • Comfort owning production systems built on technologies like Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes, with strong intuition for reliability, throughput, and cost at scale • Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions • A track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed • Strong ownership mindset and ability to discuss technical decisions in depth • Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery • Bonus: experience leading shared platforms or primitives • Bonus: experience shipping push notifications or re-engagement systems at consumer scale, including deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations • Bonus: full-stack experience across frontend and backend development • Bonus: measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making • Bonus: success driving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces • Understanding of the gaming industry • Discord user familiar with core Discord communication features and flow

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process