# Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Hiring organization: [LaunchDarkly](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/launchdarkly)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/73b2d1e3-e758-4669-a266-baacdc3ff9d2

Listed on LaunchDarkly's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 163000 – 224070 USD per year

## Summary

LaunchDarkly seeks an experienced engineering manager to oversee a data platform team building high-throughput, event-ingestion and analytics systems that power their feature-delivery products. This role suits leaders with deep distributed-systems knowledge who have managed backend engineers and want to own mission-critical infrastructure at scale.

_Our summary, not LaunchDarkly's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Go, Python, Terraform

## Required

- 8+ years software engineering experience
- 2+ years managing backend or infrastructure engineers
- Experience owning high-throughput, reliability-critical production systems
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals
- Ability to partner with Product Management on technical planning
- Track record coaching and developing engineers
- Strong communication in distributed, cross-timezone environment
- Familiarity with observability practices and production incident response

## Nice to have

- Experience with Go or Python
- Experience with Kafka or Kinesis
- Experience with ClickHouse, Airflow, Athena, Iceberg, Elasticsearch, or Terraform

Apply on LaunchDarkly's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7992639003