Engineering Manager - Experimentation Platform

Cervin; United States; On-site; USD 163,000 - 263,670; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Experimentation team. You will lead engineers building and operating the core Experimentation product, guiding setup, results processing, and display.

The role sits at the intersection of large-scale systems, data science, and user experience to empower data-driven product decisions. You will mentor engineers, align roadmaps with PM and Design, and ensure timely, quality feature delivery while maintaining a collaborative engineering culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers.
• 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) and data pipeline tooling (Airflow, Prequel) is a plus.

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 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

Communication

Coaching & mentorship

Observability practices

Team leadership

Tools

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Airflow

Prequel

Databricks

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Experimentation team. You will lead engineers building and operating the core Experimentation product, guiding setup, results processing, and display.

The role sits at the intersection of large-scale systems, data science, and user experience to empower data-driven product decisions. You will mentor engineers, align roadmaps with PM and Design, and ensure timely, quality feature delivery while maintaining a collaborative engineering culture