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 engineers and helping team members succeed /li li Strong ownership mindset — you stay close to the technical decisions your team makes and can discuss them in depth with anyone at Discord /li li Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery /li /ul p strong Bonus points /strong /p ul li Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives consumed by other engineering teams /li li Experience shipping push notifications or other re-engagement systems at consumer scale, including familiarity with deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations /li li Full-stack experience across both frontend and backend development /li li Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making /li li Demonstrated success driving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces /li li You understand the gaming industry /li li You're a Discord user and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications /li /ul p em The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, a