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LaunchdarklyLaunchdarklySan Francisco, CA

Engineering Director, Core

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for LaunchDarkly's core platform and critical-path infrastructure. Set technical direction, drive large-scale migrations and reliability initiatives, grow engineering managers and senior talent, and partner with product and executive leadership.

229k – 370k
Remote8+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Set a clear, credible technical roadmap for your teams and communicate it up, down, and across the org.
  • Manage and grow a group of engineering managers and senior engineers. Hire, coach, and retain strong technical talent.
  • Drive complex, multi-team initiatives from design through delivery, including large migrations and infrastructure evolution.
  • Own reliability and performance for systems in the critical path for customers, with real rigor around on-call, incident response, and observability.
  • Work closely with product, design, and other engineering leaders to align technical direction with business priorities.
  • Bring emerging tools and AI-assisted development into your team's day-to-day to increase leverage.
  • Build a high-trust, high-agency engineering culture, and act as a mentor and multiplier across the org.

Requirements

  • Experience managing engineering managers or multiple teams.
  • Significant hands-on experience with distributed systems, high-scale infrastructure, or developer tooling.
  • Track record owning a major technical migration or infrastructure initiative end to end.
  • Comfortable operating across cloud infrastructure and production distributed systems.
  • Strong track record hiring and developing engineering talent.
  • You've managed engineering managers and multiple teams, with a track record of growing technical leaders under you.
  • Real hands-on experience as a software engineer, with exposure to distributed systems, high-scale infrastructure, or developer tools.
  • Comfortable setting direction in a fast-changing environment and adjusting as priorities shift.
  • Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into terms product, business, and executive stakeholders can act on.
  • Bias toward action and a track record of delivering complex technical projects end to end.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with modern engineering practices including emerging tools and AI-assisted development.

Compensation

Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level M4 (includes RSUs, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary):

  • Zone 1 (San Francisco/Bay Area or New York City Metropolitan Area): $269400 - $370480
  • Zone 2 (Boston, DC, Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Seattle): $242500 - $333410
  • Zone 3 (All other US locations): $229000 - $314930

Skills

Distributed SystemsHigh-Scale InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsCloud InfrastructureAi-Assisted Development

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