Discord is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Internal Developer Experience (IDX) team to remove friction and generate compounding leverage for engineering teams by providing dependable tools that accelerate development and delivery.
Requirements
- You are comfortable with many languages such as Python, Rust, Elixir, TS/JS and have a pulse on the surrounding language tooling ecosystems
- You have experience using Bazel as a build system
- You’ve worked with CI / CD systems like Buildkite, Gitlab, CircleCI, or others
- You have experience building and shipping products across multiple client platforms (web, iOS, and Android)
- You have experience with Nix
- You have experience working with Kubernetes
- You have built open source software integrated by other developers.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of seven engaged engineers: building autonomy, mastery, and purpose
- Work with internal engineering teams to understand their pain points and set a clear vision to improve the effectiveness of the software development lifecycle
- Build new developer experiences while balancing prioritization of our existing systems such as dev environments, build and test tooling, CI, and client release tooling
- Support the design and delivery of elegant build systems to produce minimized and easy-to-deploy container builds for customers all over Discord
- Own and improve the operational health and processes of our team, including our internal helpdesk
Other
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 3+ Software Engineers
- You have experience working with many teams and stakeholders and have a track record of elegantly managing and communicating change
- You are comfortable drafting the roadmap in concert with your senior and staff engineers
- You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but love to code when the opportunity arises
