Senior Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role, including managing senior engineers
• Experience leading teams that build developer-facing software: SDKs, client libraries, public APIs, or open-source projects used by external developers
• Working familiarity with several programming languages and ecosystems, and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs in a polyglot codebase
• Proven ability to prioritize across many stakeholders and to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates
• Track record of coaching and developing senior engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers
• Familiarity with observability practices and comfort with production incident response
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software is a plus

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the SDK team, the team behind LaunchDarkly’s developer experience across every platform
• The team builds and maintains 35+ open-source SDKs, along with OpenFeature providers, event-streaming libraries, contract tests, release tooling, and the Relay Proxy
• This is the code developers integrate directly into their applications and the primary way customers experience LaunchDarkly day-to-day
• Our SDKs are feature-rich agents that bring LaunchDarkly’s capabilities into a wide range of languages, frameworks, and platforms, with a deep focus on performance, concurrency, resiliency, and idiomatic developer experiences
• Trillions of feature flag evaluations run through code this team ships, giving the team an unusually direct impact on how safely and confidently engineering organizations deliver software
• You’ll lead a senior, polyglot team working at the intersection of developer tooling, distributed systems, open source, and the next generation of software delivery
• It’s an opportunity to shape a highly visible portfolio, influence how developers (including AI-assisted developers) integrate with LaunchDarkly, and help define what great developer infrastructure looks like at scale
• This is a role with real technical and organizational scope: you’ll help set priorities across a large, long-lived ecosystem; guide decisions around compatibility, versioning, release quality, and resilience; and grow a team whose work is public, widely used, and central to LaunchDarkly’s product experience
• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
• Own prioritization and intake for the SDK portfolio, balancing feature work, maintenance, security, and customer escalations across 35+ SDKs and the Relay Proxy
• Partner with Product Management to define and deliver the SDK and Relay Proxy roadmap, including version support and deprecation policy
• Guide technical tradeoffs across languages and platforms, and help the team keep our SDKs idiomatic, performant, and resilient
• Represent SDK engineering with customers, Support, Solutions, and Sales, and communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership
• Drive operational excellence in release quality, observability, and incident response for SDKs and the Relay Proxy
• 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

Benefits

• Full Vision
• Full Dental
• Full Medical
• Flexible Schedule
• Healthy Lunches & Snacks
• Conference & Meetup Access
• Education Stipend
• Personalized Work Station
• Close to Public Transportation
• Bike Parking
• Team Activities
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance