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Engineering Manager, Chat Infrastructure

Discord's Chat Infrastructure team is responsible for the central systems that support our 11,500,000 concurrent users, ranging from our real-time Elixir services to how we store billions of messages in Cassandra. The team's mission is to delight users through ensuring that Discord is a fast and reliable service that they can depend on.

Discord is looking for a highly technical, hands-on and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Chat Infrastructure team to help us scale to the next level. As a manager responsible for the Chat Infrastructure team you will have significant leadership and impact on the evolution of Discord's backend and architecture.

If that sounds exciting to you, read on!

What you'll do

• Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for the Chat Infrastructure team by collaborating with your team and stakeholders across the company.
• Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results.
• Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ Software Engineers.
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
• You are a first principles thinker that can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions.
• You have a proven record of building and deploying high-scale distributed systems in a modern cloud-first world, but still, understand that the cloud is built on actual hardware and networks and what that means.
• You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love to roll up your sleeves and getting elbow deep in code when the opportunities arise.
• You keep up with the industry trends and continuously identify new technologies to leverage to solve technical problems.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with the Erlang VM.
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong open-source leadership or contributions.
• Been a leader at a growing startup and seen what could happen next.