LaunchDarkly
Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 2 days ago · Added 5 days ago
First listed 5 days ago and still open.
Salary
$191,800 to $263,670
Location
United States only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - US, US - Oakland, CA (HQ)"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About the Job:
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.
Responsibilities:
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
Qualifications:
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
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2:
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670**
Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270**
Requirements
- ·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
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at LaunchDarkly, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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