Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly provides a software delivery platform that helps engineering teams release features safely, progressively, and efficiently. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the SDK team, overseeing a portfolio of 35+ open-source SDKs, OpenFeature providers, event-streaming libraries, release tooling, contract tests, and the Relay Proxy while guiding technical strategy, operational excellence, and team development.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
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