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# Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering at LaunchDarkly

- **Company:** LaunchDarkly
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/8004607003

## Job description

About the Job:

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, the team responsible for the foundational infrastructure our products and engineering teams depend on.

Cloud Engineering owns LaunchDarkly’s AWS accounts and networking, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform and GitOps workflows, CockroachDB operations, disaster-recovery capabilities, and FedRAMP infrastructure posture. The team is small, senior, and recently rebuilt. This is a frontline leadership role for a manager who treats operational health as a top priority, leads calmly through incidents, and creates leverage through software, automation, and reliable paved paths.

In your first year, you’ll lead a marquee infrastructure insourcing program from planning through completion. The program’s cost savings will help fund additional team growth, giving you the opportunity to deliver meaningful business impact while strengthening the infrastructure behind LaunchDarkly’s next stage of scale.

This role combines people leadership, operational ownership, and technical judgment. You do not need to be the most senior individual contributor in the room, but you should be comfortable partnering with experienced engineers, guiding tradeoffs, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career-development support.
- Own the operational health of LaunchDarkly’s cloud infrastructure, including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery.
- Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, including sequencing work, managing dependencies, communicating milestones, and ensuring a successful transition.
- Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs across AWS infrastructure, networking, multi-region Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, GitOps, datastore operations, and compliance-related infrastructure.
- Build leverage through software, automation, and paved paths that help product engineering teams use infrastructure safely and independently.
- Support migrations by providing guidance, patterns, and enablement while maintaining clear ownership boundaries with partner teams.
- Establish team norms for effective AI-assisted engineering and identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through AI and automation.
- Maintain team health and continuity through change, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable environment.
- Partner with Service Frameworks, Core Platform, Revenue Platform, Data Platform, and product engineering teams on shared infrastructure priorities and cross-team dependencies.
- Communicate roadmaps, operational risks, investment needs, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Participate in hiring and team planning as the organization grows.

Qualifications:

- 2+ years of experience managing an infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team at a product company, including people management of an on-call team.
- Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks for critical production systems.
- Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion.
- Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices, with the judgment to guide discussions and tradeoffs with senior engineers.
- Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition.
- A clear point of view on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and operational priorities to a range of audiences.
- A thoughtful, calm, and accountable leadership approach, particularly during incidents and periods of change.

Nice to Haves

- Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management.
- Experience supporting FedRAMP or other compliance-related infrastructure and operations.
- Experience operating large-scale datastores or OLAP systems.
- Experience growing a team through funded expansion.

Pay:

Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level M2:

- 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**
- 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. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.

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 hr@launchdarkly.com.

Do you need a disability accommodation?

Fill out this [accommodations request form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYb_7upYMtdRVXzvXGHGfQw0pU2FNma-6Rwp-I6NjKm7SYNw/viewform) and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @[launchdarkly.com](http://launchdarkly.com) email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains.  Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit [Careers | LaunchDarkly](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/)  directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply.

Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com.

## About LaunchDarkly

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LaunchDarkly provides a runtime control layer for AI-era software development, enabling teams to release features safely, experiment in production, and govern AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Series D+) with investors including Redpoint, Threshold Ventures, and Benchmark.
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, USA (with additional offices in London, UK; Bangalore and Mumbai, India)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Edith Harbaugh (CEO/Executive Chair) and John Kodumal (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Feature management / software tooling / developer infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving both large enterprises (25% of Fortune 500) and small startups; teams in engineering, product, marketing, and business operations.
- **Mission or purpose**: “Making software releases boring since 2014” and “creating a world in which every AI-powered release is safe and unceremonious.”

## Products & Services
- **Feature Flags (CodeControl)**: Wrap new or risky code in flags to enable progressive rollouts, automated rollbacks, and instant remediation — without redeploying.
- **Experimentation (A/B/n testing, multi-armed bandits)**: Run online experiments on code and agents to optimize performance based on real-world results.
- **Observability (Guardian Monitoring, Error Monitoring, Logs & Traces, Session Replay)**: Monitor feature behavior and auto-remediate issues.
- **AgentControl**: Govern, observe, and steer AI agents in production — including adaptive triggers, progressive rollouts, agent observability, custom judges, and LLM playground.
- **AI Insights & Prompt Management**: Test prompts/models in production, dynamically route traffic to best options, and manage prompt snippets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (last reported Series D in 2021 was at a ~$3 billion valuation per industry sources; not confirmed in provided materials)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – not disclosed in provided sources. Annual Revenue – not publicly available. Proxy: 5,500+ customers, 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board members include Scott Raney (Redpoint), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), and Jonathan Heiliger (Benchmark); listed on Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years.
- **Growth Signals**: >570 employees and growing; 25% of Fortune 500 are customers; expansion into AI agent control (AgentControl product); remote-first hiring globally.

## Competitive Advantages
- **#1 in Feature Management** for three years running (as claimed on website).
- **Massive scale**: 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily, providing unmatched performance and reliability.
- **Integrated platform** combining feature flags, experimentation, observability, and AI agent governance in one runtime control layer — reducing tool sprawl.
- **Strong brand trust** among 5,500+ customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises.

## Strategic Focus
- **Lead the AI transformation**: Apply runtime control principles to AI agents and LLM-powered features (AgentControl, LLM Playground, custom judges).
- **Enable self-healing systems**: Automatically detect and remediate failing code or misbehaving agents without human intervention.
- **Continue expanding experimentation** and observability capabilities to help teams continuously optimize.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind” – as stated on the careers page. Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Many engineering roles are fully remote (US, India, other locations). Some roles like IT are hybrid in Oakland or Bangalore/Mumbai.
- **Work environment**: High-growth (570+ employees) with significant investment in engineering (multiple engineering teams: Core, Measure, Release, AI, etc.).
- **Notable perks**: Pay transparency policy (disclosure of compensation upon request), commitment to diversity, and formal accommodation process. The company is a federal contractor, so it adheres to strict non-discrimination and pay disclosure rules.
- **Engineering focus**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge problems in feature management, experimentation, and AI governance at massive scale.

## Sources
1. [LaunchDarkly Website](https://launchdarkly.com/) – Main product description, company overview, stats
2. [LaunchDarkly About Us](https://launchdarkly.com/about-us/) – Founding story, leadership team, investors, office locations
3. [LaunchDarkly Careers](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/) – Culture, equal opportunity statement, pay transparency policy
4. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7738584003) – Open positions, remote/hybrid details, team structure
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchdarkly) – Company description, employee count

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