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Sr. Elixir Engineer

Playa Vista, CA

$113K - $155K/yr

... at the service level and consistently influences decision-making at the project level • ... Elixir, with 2 - 4 years experience with Phoenix, LiveView, Oban, GenStage • 2 - 4 years ...

Sr. Elixir Engineer

Playa Vista, CA

$113K - $155K/yr

... at the service level and consistently influences decision-making at the project level • ... Elixir, with 2 - 4 years experience with Phoenix, LiveView, Oban, GenStage • 2 - 4 years ...

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Professionals in Elixir Services often encounter challenges such as managing concurrent processes, ensuring system scalability, and maintaining fault-tolerant architectures. Since Elixir is built on the Erlang VM, understanding its concurrency model and supervision strategies is crucial. Collaborating closely with DevOps, QA, and frontend teams helps address integration issues and streamline deployment. Staying up-to-date with the latest libraries and best practices, as well as participating in code reviews, can significantly improve code quality and system reliability.

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Elixir services refer to software applications or components built using the Elixir programming language, often running as background processes or web services. Elixir is known for its scalability, fault-tolerance, and use in building distributed systems, particularly for real-time applications. Services written in Elixir frequently leverage the Phoenix web framework and the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) for high-performance and concurrent processing. Companies use Elixir services to power chat systems, APIs, and other backend infrastructure that require reliability and efficiency.
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Engineering Manager, Notifications

Engineering Manager, Notifications

Discord

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

This job post has expired today. Applications are no longer accepted.


Job description

Job Summary:
Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people each month, primarily for gaming. They are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications team, responsible for the infrastructure that powers notifications and enhances user engagement.
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
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
• 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
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions
• A track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed
• Strong ownership mindset — you stay close to the technical decisions your team makes and can discuss them in depth with anyone at Discord
• Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery
Preferred:
• Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives consumed by other engineering teams
• Experience shipping push notifications or other re-engagement systems at consumer scale, including familiarity with deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations
• Full-stack experience across both frontend and backend development
• Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated success driving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces
• You understand the gaming industry
• You're a Discord user and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
Company:
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.