Engineering Manager (Cloud Engineering)

Join LaunchDarkly as an Engineering Manager for the Cloud Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the team responsible for the foundational infrastructure that supports our products and engineering teams. You will own the operational health of LaunchDarkly's cloud infrastructure, guide technical priorities, and build leverage through software and automation. This is a frontline leadership role that combines people leadership, operational ownership, and technical judgment.

Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career-development support.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health of LaunchDarkly’s cloud infrastructure, including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, including sequencing work, managing dependencies, communicating milestones, and ensuring a successful transition.
• Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks for critical production systems
• Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition

Requirements

• Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices, with the judgment to guide discussions and tradeoffs with senior engineers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and operational priorities to a range of audiences
• 2+ years of experience managing an infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team at a product company, including people management of an on-call team
• A thoughtful, calm, and accountable leadership approach, particularly during incidents and periods of change
• A clear point of view on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering
• Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion
• Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management
• Experience operating large-scale datastores or OLAP systems
• Experience growing a team through funded expansion

Preferred

• Experience supporting FedRAMP or other compliance-related infrastructure and operations

Pay

USD 163,000 - 263,670