Senior Director of Engineering, Core

LaunchDarkly

98d • $223,000 - $361,000

About The Position

LaunchDarkly is looking for a Director of Core Engineering to lead our foundational engineering teams. The Core Engineering group builds and scales the infrastructure, systems, services and frameworks that power our feature management platform. The group also invests in improving internal developer tooling and overall service architecture. Your work will make it possible for thousands of our customers as well as every LaunchDarkly engineering team to innovate quickly, reliably and performantly. This role is a great fit for a leader who has scaled distributed systems, reduced complexity in technical systems, built inclusive and high-performing teams, and enjoys empowering others to do their best work. You’ll set direction and drive execution for the Core Engineering organization while collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to ensure our platform is resilient, scalable, and ready for the future.

Requirements

• 10+ years in engineering leadership positions, including 3+ years in a Director+ role leading multiple teams and products
• Experience with reasoning about large scale distributed systems architectures, understanding data flows from SDKs to delivery network to data platforms and back
• Good understanding of cloud native architectures and pragmatic approach to technical debt, migrations, and technical evolutions
• Prior experience scaling teams and building strong partnerships with product, design, GTM, customers, vendors in a growing company

Responsibilities

• Guide engineering strategy, define roadmap and drive execution for core infrastructure, APIs, SDKs and services that power every single LaunchDarkly product; connect efforts to business outcomes
• Raise the bar and champion best practices in distributed systems, SDK experience, developer workflows, data platform, technical design, performance, scalability, reliability; ensure we are ready for the future
• Partner with product and engineering leaders across Feature Management, Release Observability, AI, Experimentation and Product Analytics and other groups to deliver seamless platform-wide experiences; delight customers with a consistent experience
• Hire, mentor and support multiple engineering teams, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can grow, thrive with autonomy and advance their careers; build a leadership bench
• Model and evangelize a leadership style rooted in transparency, ownership, curiosity and a bias for action; be a culture champion

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Mental health benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees