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$163,000 – $224,070
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What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Kafka
- ClickHouse
- Datadog
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Python
- Terraform
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What they ask for
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