Engineering Manager, Notifications

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform — Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and the Kubernetes infrastructure underneath them
• 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 instilling engineering best practices
• Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve the primitives other teams depend on to reach our users
• Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Comfort owning production systems built on technologies like Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes, with strong intuition for reliability, throughput, and cost at scale
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions
• A track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed
• Strong ownership mindset — you stay close to the technical decisions your team makes and can discuss them in depth with anyone at Discord
• Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery

Bonus points

• Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives consumed by other engineering teams
• Experience shipping push notifications or other re-engagement systems at consumer scale, including familiarity with deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations
• Full-stack experience across both frontend and backend development
• Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated success driving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces
• You understand the gaming industry
• You're a Discord user and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications