Engineering Manager, Notifications

🏢 Discord · 📍 Remote (U.S.) · 💼 remote worldwide 💰 $248,000 - $341,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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.

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 reliabili

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Discord Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Interviewers strictly test user-centric community empathy, high-concurrency systems design, and cultural alignment with a gamer-first ethos.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Viewing community moderation, safety, and trust & safety infrastructure as an afterthought
2. Proposing bloated, corporate enterprise solutions that clash with Discord's lightweight vibe
3. Poor understanding of real-time event-driven architecture and state synchronization

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