Engineering Manager, Notifications

<div class="content-intro"><p>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: <strong>play video games.</strong> 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.</p></div><p>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.</p> <p>This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Be Doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably as volume and complexity grow</li> <li>Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap</li> <li>Use experimentation and metrics to drive continuous improvement in notification engagement, retention, and long-term user trust</li> <li>Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and instilling engineering best practices</li> <li>Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve the primitives other teams depend on to reach our users</li> <li>Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you should have</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale</li> <li>2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager</li> <li>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</li> <li>Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions</li> <li>A track record of growing enginee