Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform & Growth

Discord; Charlotte Amalie (United States Virgin Islands); On-site; USD 248,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord seeks an Engineering Manager for the Notifications team within Growth. You will lead a full-stack team spanning Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infra powering notifications used by hundreds of millions of users.

Youll partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap, driving engagement, retention, and user trust through experimentation and metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience at scale.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience with Elixir, Python, pubsub, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to align product, design, data science, and marketing.
• Track record of growing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform.
• Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure scale.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing on roadmap.
• Use experimentation and metrics to drive engagement and trust.
• Build a high-performing team through coaching and best practices.
• Collaborate with platform consumers to evolve primitives for users.

Skills

Leadership & mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

People growth

Strategic thinking

Tools

Elixir

Python

Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

Job description

Discord seeks an Engineering Manager for the Notifications team within Growth. You will lead a full-stack team spanning Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infra powering notifications used by hundreds of millions of users.

Youll partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap, driving engagement, retention, and user trust through experimentation and metrics.