Engineering Manager, Platform

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. 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 and enable the engineering teams in charge of our infrastructure, shared platform services, and internal developer tooling. Your end users are fellow LaunchDarkly engineers!

• Design and implement core platform infrastructure; you will codify it, monitor it, evolve it, and solve some devilish problems in production.

• Ensure that new engineers get up and running in minutes, are quickly able to start contributing, and that their changes flow from laptop to production with minimal friction.

• Set goals to ensure the health and continuous improvement of the system and its operational processes. You will help drive the overall reliability, efficiency, and operability of our platform.

• Ensure we run a cost-effective service, and monitor and make changes to hit spending constraints.

• Help your team keep a healthy service while also prioritizing strategic, high-impact investments.

• Help build a diverse and highly skilled team able to keep up with a rapidly growing product.

• 3+ years experience leading people: hiring, motivating, growing, empowering, and performance managing.

• A drive to truly understand the needs of your customer (our developers!) and the ability to translate those needs into business goals.

• 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.

• Proven ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.

One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.

We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly.

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