Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

Join us in our mission to make Discord's users safer by creating scalable and proactive systems to limit bad actors across the platform. We are looking for a technical, metrics-driven and hands-on Engineering manager to lead this team.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building scalable backend or real-time data systems
• 2+ years experience as an Engineering Manager
• Experience operating and deploying large-scale distributed systems, including Kubernetes experience
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally
• Ability to work with others to create pragmatic solutions — and then evolve and generalize them
• Confidence to dive deep into the technical details and challenge designs or solutions

Responsibilities

• Supporting a team of talented, 8-10 Engineers including a Staff Engineer
• Owning our in-house, real-time abuse detection platform written in Python and Rust
• Working with Product, Data Science, and ML to develop reusable services or architectures
• Building out the signals, datasets, and databases to support our informational needs
• Expanding and deploying internal APIs to combat abusive content
• Maintain operations for our infrastructure on Kubernetes
• Move quickly to respond to the moving target of abuse on Discord

Benefits

$223,000 to $245,500 + equity + benefits