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We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform team and help shape the high-throughput data backbone behind our most important products. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a technically deep team building and operating the systems that ingest, process, and serve the real-time and batch data powering Experimentation, Metrics, Observability, Release Guardian, AgentControl, and Data Export.
Working primarily in Go and Python, your team tackles ambitious distributed-systems challenges with technologies including Kinesis, Airflow, Athena, and Iceberg on S3, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Terraform, AWS, and Datadog. From evolving real-time analytics and context data to strengthening streaming and batch pipelines, you’ll guide the platform that turns vast volumes of events into reliable, customer-facing product experiences while partnering across Core Engineering and product teams to make data faster, more resilient, and more useful for every LaunchDarkly customer.
Lead and develop a team of backend engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
Own the delivery, correctness, and resilience of Data Platform's production systems, including Tier 0 ingestion endpoints and the pipelines and data stores behind them
Partner with Product Management and consuming engineering teams to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap work, making tradeoffs in real time
Act as the primary communicator and point of contact for Data Platform with engineering leadership, partner teams, and customers
Drive operational excellence: reliability, observability, cost, incident response, and on-call health
Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos and bus factor, and keep engineers engaged
Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers
Experience owning high-throughput, reliability-critical production systems such as event ingestion, streaming or batch pipelines, or large analytical data stores
Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs with senior engineers
Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates
Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship
Strong communication skills in a distributed, cross-time-zone environment
Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort leading production incident response
Experience with Go or Python, and with technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, ClickHouse, Airflow, Athena or Iceberg, Elasticsearch, and Terraform is a plus
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2:
Zone 3: _All other US locations - _$163,000 - $224,070**
All Zones Inclusive of a 10% Bonus Target
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
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About LaunchDarkly:
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at mailto:[email protected] [email protected].
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vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary._
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is $191,800 - $263,670 per annum.
What experience is required?
8+ years of experience is required.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
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