Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly is a software delivery platform company that helps developers release, control, and optimize software features. The Engineering Manager will lead the AgentControl Evaluations team in building and operating services for offline evaluations, playgrounds, LLM-as-judges, and annotated datasets, while providing people management and technical leadership. The role also focuses on roadmap delivery, cross-team collaboration, operational excellence, and developing a high-performing engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
- Partner with PM and Design to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap items, making scope tradeoffs in real time
- Own the team's delivery of features, ensuring completion within timelines and quality requirements
- Collaborate with adjacent teams (AI Agents, Observability, Feature Management) on shared infrastructure decisions and cross-team dependencies
- Communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos, and keep engineers engaged
- Drive operational excellence — improve reliability, observability, and incident response for production infrastructure
- Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers
- Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimations
- Strong communication skills, especially in distributed team environments with cross-timezone collaboration
- Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship
- Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort with production incident response
- Familiarity with common AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Gemini) and popular AI tooling (Langchain, Arize)
- Experience with Go and Python or comparable backend languages (Java, Rust, Ruby) is a plus
Benefits
- All Zones Inclusive of a 10% Bonus Target
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
Company Overview
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