# Engineering Manager, AgentControl

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/85da2ad3-75f3-4384-9fc5-e07b25077a9a

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

Lead a backend engineering team building LaunchDarkly's AI agent evaluation and control platform, managing product delivery while mentoring engineers across distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure. Suited for managers comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership in a fast-growing startup environment.

_Our summary, not LaunchDarkly's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CockroachDB, Datadog, Go, Python, TypeScript

## Required

- 3+ years software engineering experience
- 2+ years managing backend or infrastructure engineers
- Product management partnership and estimation skills
- Cross-timezone communication and collaboration
- Engineer coaching, mentorship, and performance management
- Observability practices: metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging
- Production incident response experience

## Nice to have

- Go or Python experience (or comparable backend languages: Java, Rust, Ruby)
- Familiarity with AI providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Gemini
- Knowledge of AI tooling: Langchain, Arize

Apply on LaunchDarkly's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7977701003