Senior Engineering Manager | Discord | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Come lead our Realtime & Notifications Infrastructure and be a driving force behind the technology that connects over 200M users in real-time.</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Every interaction our users take on Discord flows through our Realtime Infrastructure. From messages and reactions to status updates, this team is at the core of delivering over 30M events per second to our users. In addition to enabling instantaneous engagement, this group also ensures users never miss a beat with timely delivery of push notifications, emails, and SMS. As the Senior Engineering Manager for this group, you will lead the teams responsible for some of Discord’s most mission-critical, intricate, and scalable systems. The position reports to the Director of Engineering for Serving Infra.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll be doing</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Guide the technical vision and roadmap for Discord’s Realtime and Notifications Infrastructure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Grow and manage a team of talented infrastructure engineers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure Discord just works by building and operating reliable and efficient infrastructure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with leaders from all over the company to build new features.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you should have</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You can collaborate effectively with a variety of teams across multiple functions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding pragmatic solutions to complex technical or organizational challenges.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’ve worked with high scale distributed systems used by tens or hundreds of millions of users.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are passionate about coaching and developing engineers, but love to dig into technical problems when the opportunity arises.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You keep up with the industry trends and grow your knowledge and skills to solve technical problems.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Things that may interest you</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our tech stack is Elixir, Python and Rust.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our team uses a lot of open source technologies, and contributes back too:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/semaphore" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">sempahore</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/instruments" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">instruments</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/sorted%5Fset%5Fnif" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">sorted_set_nif</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/dispenser" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">dispenser</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/erlpack" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">erlpack</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being one of Discord’s oldest teams, we’ve written quite a few blog posts through the years:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-with-a-million-plus-online-users-in-a-single-server" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/why-and-how-discord-uses-patch-to-test-elixir" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Why and How Discord Uses Patch to Test Elixir</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-000-concurrent-users" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-handles-push-request-bursts-of-over-a-million-per-minute-with-elixirs-genstage" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Discord handles push request bursts of over a million per minute with Elixir’s GenStage</a></p>
<p></span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>#LI-Remote</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>The US base salary range for this full-time position is $263,000 to $289,500 + 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, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking <a href="https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here. </a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is an equal opportunity employer that believes diversity inspires creativity and innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can do their best work free of harassment or discrimination, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other protected characteristics or identities. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles where they may make the most impact.</p>
<h4>About Us</h4>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. <strong class=" font-semibold">So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Come lead our Realtime & Notifications Infrastructure and be a driving force behind the technology that connects over 200M users in real-time.</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Every interaction our users take on Discord flows through our Realtime Infrastructure. From messages and reactions to status updates, this team is at the core of delivering over 30M events per second to our users. In addition to enabling instantaneous engagement, this group also ensures users never miss a beat with timely delivery of push notifications, emails, and SMS. As the Senior Engineering Manager for this group, you will lead the teams responsible for some of Discord’s most mission-critical, intricate, and scalable systems. The position reports to the Director of Engineering for Serving Infra.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll be doing</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Guide the technical vision and roadmap for Discord’s Realtime and Notifications Infrastructure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Grow and manage a team of talented infrastructure engineers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure Discord just works by building and operating reliable and efficient infrastructure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with leaders from all over the company to build new features.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you should have</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You can collaborate effectively with a variety of teams across multiple functions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding pragmatic solutions to complex technical or organizational challenges.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’ve worked with high scale distributed systems used by tens or hundreds of millions of users.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are passionate about coaching and developing engineers, but love to dig into technical problems when the opportunity arises.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You keep up with the industry trends and grow your knowledge and skills to solve technical problems.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Things that may interest you</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our tech stack is Elixir, Python and Rust.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Our team uses a lot of open source technologies, and contributes back too:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/semaphore" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">sempahore</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/instruments" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">instruments</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/sorted%5Fset%5Fnif" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">sorted_set_nif</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/dispenser" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">dispenser</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://github.com/discord/erlpack" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">erlpack</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being one of Discord’s oldest teams, we’ve written quite a few blog posts through the years:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-with-a-million-plus-online-users-in-a-single-server" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/why-and-how-discord-uses-patch-to-test-elixir" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Why and How Discord Uses Patch to Test Elixir</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-000-concurrent-users" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users</a></p>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-handles-push-request-bursts-of-over-a-million-per-minute-with-elixirs-genstage" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Discord handles push request bursts of over a million per minute with Elixir’s GenStage</a></p>
<p></span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>#LI-Remote</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>The US base salary range for this full-time position is $263,000 to $289,500 + 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, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking <a href="https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here. </a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is an equal opportunity employer that believes diversity inspires creativity and innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can do their best work free of harassment or discrimination, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other protected characteristics or identities. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles where they may make the most impact.</p>
<h4>About Us</h4>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. <strong class=" font-semibold">So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!</strong></p>