Engineering Director, Core

LaunchDarkly

1d•$229,000 - $370,480•Remote

About The Position

As Director of Engineering, you'll lead the teams behind LaunchDarkly's core platform — the infrastructure our customers depend on every time they ship. You'll set technical direction across multiple engineering teams, grow a bench of strong managers and senior engineers, and make sure the systems in our critical path stay fast, reliable, and ready to scale. We'd prefer this person to be based in the US, any time zone.

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.

Nice To Haves

Experienced engineering leader with a track record of growing technical leaders under you.
Real hands-on experience as a software engineer.
Comfortable with ambiguity: You set direction in a fast-changing environment and adjust as priorities shift.
Strong communicator: You 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.

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.