Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform & Growth

Discord; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team in Growth. You will own the notifications platform—Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines and the Kubernetes stack—driving reliability, throughput, and cost at scale.

You will partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define and execute the roadmap, and you’ll grow a high-performing team through coaching and strong engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer building backend or infra at scale.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to discuss technical decisions at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead a full-stack notifications platform: Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines and Kubernetes infra.
• Set direction for notifications infrastructure to scale with volume and complexity.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define the roadmap.
• Use experiments and metrics to improve engagement, retention, and trust.
• Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and best practices.
• Partner with other Discord teams to evolve shared primitives and reach users.
• Support strategic planning and organizational improvements with engineering leadership.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure systems

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

Reliability & scaling

Tools

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

Pub/Sub pipelines

Job description

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team in Growth. You will own the notifications platform—Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines and the Kubernetes stack—driving reliability, throughput, and cost at scale.

You will partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define and execute the roadmap, and you’ll grow a high-performing team through coaching and strong engineering practices.