Communication, Social Media, Gaming

Senior Engineering Manager, Nitro

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeManager / Head$304,000–$380,000 /yrPosted 28 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Engineering Manager
Consumer Revenue
Nitro
Discord
career development
product sense
data informed decisions
experiments
technical expertise
process improvement

Nice to have

Agile
first principles
ambiguity
complex problems
industry trends

Role summary

Discord is seeking a technical and hands-on Senior Engineering Manager for its Consumer Revenue team to build and scale the Nitro product and organization. This role involves leading a team of engineers across platforms to develop revenue-driving products. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Finance, CX, Product, Design, Marketing) to define vision and roadmap, ensuring high technical standards, and implementing process improvements. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, strong product sense, data-informed decision-making skills, and is comfortable with ambiguity. The position offers a base salary range of $304,000 - $380,000 plus equity and benefits.

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Engineering Manager to join our Consumer Revenue team. You’ll be responsible for building and scaling our Nitro product and organization. You will lead a team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord.

What you'll be doing

Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers.

Work cross-functionally with our Finance, Customer Experience, Product, Design and Marketing teams to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the customer and business needs.

Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.

Develop insights into issues slowing down the team and use it to develop processes that enable the team to deliver its goals.

Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skillset and goals.

Make sound decisions around resourcing, and make the rationale clear to partners and team members.

Partner with Revenue leadership on strategic planning and continuously improve the Engineering organization while upholding our workplace philosophy.

Who you are

You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager

You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.

You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience developing engineers of multiple levels.

You approach problems from first principles.

You are comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.

You have a strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers.

You use experiments to make data informed decisions and are excited when numbers move by 1%.

Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.

You keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.

The base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. This position will also be eligible for equity and 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 role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Base Salary$304,000—$380,000 USD

Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

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Sample Discord interview questions

1
Design a distributed task scheduler.
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2
Implement a system for live processing of customer reviews and feedback.
system designmedium
3
Build a Discord-like Chat Server
system designhard
4
Find the minimum path sum from top-left to bottom-right in a grid. Input: grid = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] Output: 12 Explanation: The optimal path moves along 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 6, resulting in a minimum accumulated sum of 12.
codingmedium

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