Engineering Manager, Notifications

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $248k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Discord

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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 reliable scaling 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 shared primitives • 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, including significant experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale • 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager • Experience with Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes • Strong understanding of reliability, throughput, and cost at scale • Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers • Track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed • Strong ownership of technical decisions and ability to discuss them in depth • Ability to drive 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 frontend and backend experience • Bonus: measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making • Bonus: engagement and retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces • Bonus: understanding of the gaming industry • Bonus: Discord user with understanding of Discord communications

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process