Engineering Manager, Notifications

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users. 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.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform, including 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

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, staying close to the technical decisions your team makes and being able to 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 have

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; Discord user who understands the core features and flow of Discord communications

Benefits

Equity; Benefits