Discord
Senior Engineering Manager, Realtime Infrastructure
Discord, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a 100% remote role. We are looking for someone to work in our San Francisco office at least 1 time per week.
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.
Why Discord?
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. We are working toward forming true connections around play and shared experiences, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can build genuine friendships.
Your future is just a click away!
#J-18808-Ljbffr
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
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a 100% remote role. We are looking for someone to work in our San Francisco office at least 1 time per week.
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.
Why Discord?
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. We are working toward forming true connections around play and shared experiences, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can build genuine friendships.
Your future is just a click away!
#J-18808-Ljbffr