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About the Role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and infrastructure-minded Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications team within the Growth organization. Notifications is a full-stack team owning the platform and infrastructure that powers every notification Discord sends, the orchestration layer that optimizes notifications globally across types, the in-app notifications center, and the user-facing settings and client experience. You will lead a team of full-stack engineers operating business-critical systems that fan out to hundreds of millions of users while shipping the re-engagement surfaces that bring them back.
This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth.
Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle 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
- check_circle Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably as volume and complexity grow
- check_circle Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap
- check_circle Use experimentation and metrics to drive continuous improvement in notification engagement, retention, and long-term user trust
- check_circle Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and instilling engineering best practices
- check_circle Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve the primitives other teams depend on to reach our users
- check_circle Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale
- check 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- check 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
- check Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions
- check A track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed
- check Strong ownership mindset — you stay close to the technical decisions your team makes and can discuss them in depth with anyone at Discord
- check Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery
About Discord Greenhouse Board
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Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. Operating primarily out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Discord's engineering and product teams build real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure designed to support massive scale, gaming communities, and diverse social spaces.