# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at LaunchDarkly

- Company: LaunchDarkly
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Remote - US
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Data
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Skills: Core Engineering
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7992639003

## Description

About the Job: 
 We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform team and help shape the high-throughput data backbone behind our most important products. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a technically deep team building and operating the systems that ingest, process, and serve the real-time and batch data powering Experimentation, Metrics, Observability, Release Guardian, AgentControl, and Data Export.
 Working primarily in Go and Python, your team tackles ambitious distributed-systems challenges with technologies including Kinesis, Airflow, Athena, and Iceberg on S3, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Terraform, AWS, and Datadog. From evolving real-time analytics and context data to strengthening streaming and batch pipelines, you’ll guide the platform that turns vast volumes of events into reliable, customer-facing product experiences while partnering across Core Engineering and product teams to make data faster, more resilient, and more useful for every LaunchDarkly customer.
 Responsibilities:
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 Lead and develop a team of backend engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
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 Own the delivery, correctness, and resilience of Data Platform's production systems, including Tier 0 ingestion endpoints and the pipelines and data stores behind them
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 Partner with Product Management and consuming engineering teams to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap work, making tradeoffs in real time
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 Act as the primary communicator and point of contact for Data Platform with engineering leadership, partner teams, and customers
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