Engineering Manager - Scalable Notifications & Growth

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

Job summary

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will oversee full-stack engineers delivering the notifications platform—Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and the Kubernetes layer—serving hundreds of millions of users.

This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth. You will set technical direction, partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define the roadmap, and drive reliability, cost efficiency,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend or infrastructure focus.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience owning production systems at scale using Elixir, Python, pubsub and Kubernetes.
• Collaborates with product, design, data science and other engineers to ship solutions.
• Proven record of growing engineers and delivering high-quality work.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform.
• Set technical direction for notifications infra and ensure scalable, reliable systems.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute roadmaps.
• Drive engagement, retention, and trust through experimentation and metrics.
• Hire, coach, and instill engineering best practices for a high-performing team.
• Collaborate with other Discord teams to evolve shared primitives and infrastructure.
• Work with leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Elixir

Python

Kubernetes

System reliability

Stakeholder collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Elixir

Python

Pub/Sub pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team within Growth. You will oversee full-stack engineers delivering the notifications platform—Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and the Kubernetes layer—serving hundreds of millions of users.

This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth. You will set technical direction, partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to define the roadmap, and drive reliability, cost efficiency,