Engineering Manager, Notifications

Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. It plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.

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, the in-app notifications center, and user-facing settings. You will lead a team of full-stack engineers operating business-critical systems that fan out to hundreds of millions of users.

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform — Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap.
• Use experimentation and metrics to drive continuous improvement in engagement, retention, and user trust.
• Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve primitives.
• Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning.

• 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 Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers.
• Track record of growing engineers.
• Strong ownership mindset.
• Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery.

• Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives.
• Experience shipping push notifications or re-engagement systems at consumer scale.
• Full-stack experience across frontend and backend.
• Track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation.
• Understanding of the gaming industry.
• Discord user.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $341,000 + equity + benefits.