Engineering Manager, Notifications

Discord•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Discord is seeking a technical, hands-on, and infrastructure-minded Engineering Manager to lead its Notifications team within the Growth organization. This team is responsible for the platform and infrastructure powering all Discord notifications, the global optimization of 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 operate business-critical systems reaching hundreds of millions of users and developing re-engagement surfaces.

Requirements

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

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
You understand the gaming industry
You're a Discord user and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications

Responsibilities

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