Engineering Manager, Notifications

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 signifi