Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Discord; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking a technical, hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will own the end-to-end notifications platform—from Elixir services to Python backends and Kubernetes infrastructure—while partnering with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to shape the roadmap.

You will drive reliability, throughput, and cost optimizations at scale, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of fast iteration and high-quality delivery across a globally used

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Comfort owning production systems built on Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, throughput, and cost at scale.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions.
• Track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed.
• Strong ownership mindset—you stay close to technical decisions and can discuss them with stakeholders.
• Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform: 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 drive continuous improvement in 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 that other teams depend on.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

Reliability & scalability

Cost-conscious engineering

Tools

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

Pub/Sub

Job description

Discord is seeking a technical, hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will own the end-to-end notifications platform—from Elixir services to Python backends and Kubernetes infrastructure—while partnering with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to shape the roadmap.

You will drive reliability, throughput, and cost optimizations at scale, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of fast iteration and high-quality delivery across a globally used