Engineering Manager – Notifications Platform & Growth

Discord; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will guide a full-stack group building the notifications platform, from Elixir services and Python backends to pubsub pipelines and the Kubernetes layer, serving hundreds of millions of users.

You will partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define the roadmap, drive experiments, and improve engagement and retention while growing the team and maintaining high reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Software Engineer building backend or infrastructure at scale.
• 2+ years as an Engineering Manager.
• Experience with Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to define and ship solutions.
• Track record of growing engineers and coaching team members.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to discuss technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform.
• Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure at scale.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define the roadmap.
• Drive experiments and metrics to improve engagement, retention, and trust.
• Build a high-performing team through hiring and coaching.
• Collaborate with other Discord engineers to evolve shared primitives.

Skills

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

Pub/Sub pipelines

Leadership

Tools

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

Discord is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will guide a full-stack group building the notifications platform, from Elixir services and Python backends to pubsub pipelines and the Kubernetes layer, serving hundreds of millions of users.

You will partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define the roadmap, drive experiments, and improve engagement and retention while growing the team and maintaining high reliability.