Engineering Manager, LaunchDarkly
Release Monitoring
$163-263.7k
Salary dependent on candidates location + RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$163-263.7k
Salary dependent on candidates location + RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building modern web applications
- Experience guiding technical architecture and growing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
- The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to play a key role in building a new product line on the Release Monitoring team
- You’ll be part of the Release Observability group, which is focused on making every release safer, faster, and more reliable
- Our mission is to redefine how software is released: automating release processes, measuring the real-time impact of feature rollouts, and simplifying debugging when things go wrong
- From automated release pipelines to metrics monitoring, error tracking, and fully automated rollbacks, our work ensures every code change is measured, and the entire release process from rollout to issue mitigation is managed for maximum efficiency and reliability
- As the engineering leader of the Release Monitoring team, you’ll be helping us harness the power of LaunchDarkly’s Observability SDKs that power our customers' applications, and aggregate all the data to measure user impact, and use them to make smart decisions about releases
- In this role, you’ll balance technical leadership and people management as you drive the development of impactful user-facing features and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture
- You’ll work closely with product, design, and backend teams to create delightful and performant web experiences
- Manage the portfolio of your team’s work, appropriately managing everyone’s time and assigning them to the highest priority work
- Help your team make design and architectural decisions to ensure success
- Anticipate the growth of our service and keep your parts of the service healthy
- As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible of support applications in production, including on-call
- Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Partner with Product and Design to define a roadmap that balances feature delivery, operational health, and bug fixing as well as scope new features
- Guide architectural decisions and contribute to code reviews and technical designs
- Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, and inclusivity
- Help your team understand their mission and how they fit in with the overall business goals
- Advocate for the team’s technical needs and ensure alignment with company-wide goals
- Stay current with technologies and software development trends, and drive their adoption where appropriate
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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