The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement
- + years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building: and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale
- + 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 reliability, throughput, and cost at scale
