Platform Engineering Manager, LaunchDarkly
$190-224k
+ Equity
Feature management for software teams
Job no longer available
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$190-224k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience leading people, with a proven track record of hiring, motivating, growing, and empowering teams
- A drive to truly understand the reliability-related needs of your customer (our developers!) and the ability to translate those needs into effective solutions
- A hands-on foundation of infrastructure engineering knowledge that allows you to push your team, ask hard questions and recognize excellence
- Experience building and maintaining real-time, large-scale production systems
- Experience building with a major cloud provider and ensuring cost-effective utilization
- A strong command of release orchestration and infrastructure automation patterns and practices
- Proven ability to track and drive engineering efficiency metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you
- Building or managing highly distributed, high-volume services with 24/7 operational needs
- A plus if you have experience with AWS, CircleCI, Spinnaker, and/or CockroachDB
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is looking for a talented and inspirational engineering manager to help us build, scale, and empower a part of LaunchDarkly's engineering team. You will lead engineers in the development of the LaunchDarkly platform. You will set a mission for your team, define the roadmap to hit our goals, and measure success at each step. You will keep your team motivated, growing, and engaged
- This role will require a high degree of innovation, you will be expected to help develop and eventually operate global technical success functions – an example being developing and delivering onboarding webinars/office hours to Lacework customers
- As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all engineers may be responsible to support their production services, including on-call. On-call is compensated in addition
- Lead the team in charge of infrastructure
- Enable developers to deliver services with higher autonomy
- Design and implement core platform infrastructure
- Ensure smooth onboarding for new engineers
- Run a cost-effective service
- Prioritize strategic investments
- Build a diverse and highly skilled 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.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being 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
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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