Discord
Engineering Manager, Notifications
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$248k-$310kDetected 5 days ago
PythonElixirBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentKubernetesData ScienceA/B TestingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery
- Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives consumed by other engineering teams
Requirements
- 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
Compensation
- 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.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Company info
- We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
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