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title: 'Engineering Manager, Data Platform at LaunchDarkly'
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# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at LaunchDarkly

- **Company:** LaunchDarkly
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7992639003

## Job description

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**
- 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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