# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at LaunchDarkly

- Company: LaunchDarkly
- What the company does: LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control. Backed by Bessemer, Insight and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://launchdarkly.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $192K to $264K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7992639003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/launchdarkly-engineering-manager-data-platform/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Core Engineering