Engineering Manager, LaunchDarkly
Data Products
$158.9-240k
Salary dependent on location. + Restricted Stock Units
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$158.9-240k
Salary dependent on location. + Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3+ years of engineering management experience leading backend or data infrastructure teams, and 7+ years total software engineering experience
- Technical Expertise: Strong background in building and scaling data pipelines, especially with stream and batch processing technologies. Familiarity with tools such as Kinesis, Spark, Airflow, Lambda, Flink, and Athena is expected
- Domain Knowledge: Experience with event-driven systems, analytics platforms, or experimentation frameworks is a strong plus
- Data Systems: Proficiency with modern data warehouses and databases (e.g., Clickhouse, Postgres, Snowflake, ElasticSearch, Timestream)
- People Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build inclusive, high-performing teams and support career development for engineers
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate technical ideas and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Operational Mindset: Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform) and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog) to support a "you build it, you run it" engineering culture
- Bias for Action: A pragmatic and iterative approach to engineering that emphasizes incremental progress and continuous delivery
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and empathetic Engineering Manager to lead our Data Products Platform team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the data infrastructure supporting our Experimentation and Guarded Release product lines
- In this role, you'll lead a team of talented engineers who design and operate batch and real-time data pipelines that process trillions of events per day
- You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, scalable data systems that power critical features and decision-making
- This is a high-impact leadership position where you'll balance technical vision, team health, and delivery excellence to ensure LaunchDarkly continues to lead in progressive delivery and experimentation at scale
- Team Leadership & Coaching: Manage, mentor, and support a team of engineers. Foster a culture of learning, ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
- Execution & Delivery: Drive execution on roadmap commitments and prioritize technical and product initiatives in close collaboration with Product Management and Technical Leads
- Technical Strategy: Help set technical direction and guide architectural decisions for scalable, reliable, and performant data pipelines and systems
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with engineers, product managers, data scientists, designers, and business stakeholders to align technical work with product goals and customer needs
- Operational Excellence: Champion engineering best practices in reliability, performance, and observability. Ensure the team upholds a high standard for code quality, testing, and deployment
- Hiring & Growth: Collaborate with Recruiting and Engineering leadership to attract and retain top talent, and build a diverse, inclusive, and effective team
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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