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$204,500 – $330,700
Listed on LaunchDarkly’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead LaunchDarkly's SDK team of senior engineers, overseeing development and maintenance of 35+ open-source SDKs and related infrastructure used by millions of developers. This role combines technical leadership of a polyglot codebase with strategic responsibilities for roadmap prioritization, cross-stakeholder communication, and team development.
Our summary, not LaunchDarkly’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years in formal engineering management role
- Experience managing senior engineers
- Led teams building developer-facing software (SDKs, client libraries, public APIs, or open-source projects)
- Working familiarity with multiple programming languages
- Ability to prioritize across many stakeholders and partner with Product Management
- Track record coaching and developing senior engineers including performance management
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with observability practices and comfort with production incident response
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software