Engineering Manager, Warehouse Scale

LaunchDarkly

India

On-site

INR 400,000 - 700,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

LaunchDarkly in India seeks an engineering manager for our Warehouse Scale team. You will lead backend engineers building data export pipelines, DAG orchestration, and warehouse health checks, ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure.

You'll balance people leadership with technical direction, partner with Product Management, and drive observability, incident response, and cross-team collaboration to deliver critical platform infrastructure for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

3+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in people management.
Experience building/operating data infrastructure at scale.
Strong ability to translate business goals into engineering plans.
Excellent communication across time zones.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of backend 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 critical infrastructure — data export pipelines, DAG orchestration, warehouse health checks, and connection setup.
Collaborate with adjacent teams (Warehouse Integrations, Experimentation, Data Platform) 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 data infrastructure.
Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar.

Skills

People management

Backend engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Go/Java/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery

Job description

We're looking for an engineering manager for our Warehouse Scale team. In this role, you'll lead the team that builds and operates the foundational data infrastructure powering LaunchDarkly's warehouse-native products — data export pipelines, warehouse health checks, and warehouse connection setup.

You'll bring a balance of people management and technical leadership as you drive the development of critical platform infrastructure and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture. You'll partner closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that enterprise customers depend on.

Responsibilities:

Lead and develop a team of backend 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 critical infrastructure — data export pipelines, DAG orchestration, warehouse health checks, and connection setup

Collaborate with adjacent teams (Warehouse Integrations, Experimentation, Data Platform) 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 data infrastructure

Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers

Experience building or operating data infrastructure at scale — pipelines, orchestration frameworks, or data platform systems

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

Experience with Go or comparable backend languages (Java, Python, Rust) is a plus

Familiarity with data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks) and data pipeline tooling (Airflow, Prequel) is a plus

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages

Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts

Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize

Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types

Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @LaunchDarkly .com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply.

Empowering all teams to deliver and control their software.

LaunchDarkly is a pioneering feature management platform that enables development teams to safely and efficiently release software features at scale, enhancing innovation and collaboration.

Software Development Technology, Information and Internet Technology, Information and Media

Company size 501–1,000 employees

Company type Privately held Founded 2014

Total funding $330.3M Series D

Team growth

Momentum

19% in 12 mo

640 employees on LinkedIn

Employee experience

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