Senior Engineering Manager, Realtime Infrastructure

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.

Come lead our Realtime & Notifications Infrastructure and be a driving force behind the technology that connects over 200M users in real-time.

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.

What you'll be doing

• Guide the technical vision and roadmap for Discord's Realtime and Notifications Infrastructure.
• Grow and manage a team of talented infrastructure engineers.
• Ensure Discord just works by building and operating reliable and efficient infrastructure.
• Work with leaders from all over the company to build new features.

What you should have

• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• You can collaborate effectively with a variety of teams across multiple functions.
• You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding pragmatic solutions to complex technical or organizational challenges.
• You've worked with high scale distributed systems used by tens or hundreds of millions of users.
• You are passionate about coaching and developing engineers, but love to dig into technical problems when the opportunity arises.
• You keep up with the industry trends and grow your knowledge and skills to solve technical problems.

Things that may interest you

• Our tech stack is Elixir, Python and Rust.
• Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud.
• Our team uses a lot of open source technologies, and contributes back too:
• sempahore
• instruments
• sorted_set_nif
• dispenser
• erlpack
• Being one of Discord’s oldest teams, we’ve written quite a few blog posts through the years:
• Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
• Why and How Discord Uses Patch to Test Elixir
• Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
• How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users
• How Discord handles push request bursts of over a million per minute with Elixir’s GenStage

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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.

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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.

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. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!