Engineering Manager, Notifications

Discord•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Discord is looking for a technical, hands-on, and infrastructure-minded Engineering Manager to lead its Notifications team within the Growth organization. The Notifications team is responsible for the platform and infrastructure that powers all notifications sent on Discord, the optimization layer for global notification orchestration, the in-app notifications center, and the user-facing settings and client experience. The role involves leading a team of full-stack engineers who manage business-critical systems reaching hundreds of millions of users, while also developing re-engagement surfaces to bring users back to the platform. This position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant experience 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 a strong understanding of 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 — ability to stay close to technical decisions and discuss them in depth.
Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery.

Nice To Haves

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.
Understanding of the gaming industry.
Being a Discord user and understanding the core features and flow of Discord communications.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform, including Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably with growing volume and complexity.
Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap.
Utilize 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 users.
Collaborate with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement.