Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

Job Overview

About the Job: We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, the team responsible for the foundational infrastructure our products and engineering teams depend on.

Cloud Engineering owns LaunchDarkly’s AWS accounts and networking, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform and GitOps workflows, CockroachDB operations, disaster-recovery capabilities, and FedRAMP infrastructure posture.

Job Description

The team is small, senior, and recently rebuilt. This is a frontline leadership role for a manager who treats operational health as a top priority, leads calmly through incidents, and creates leverage through software, automation, and reliable paved paths.

Own the operational health of LaunchDarkly’s cloud infrastructure, including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery.

Key Responsibilities

• About the Job: We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, the team responsible for the foundational infrastructure our products and engineering teams depend on.
• This is a frontline leadership role for a manager who treats operational health as a top priority, leads calmly through incidents, and creates leverage through software, automation, and reliable paved paths.
• In your first year, you’ll lead a marquee infrastructure insourcing program from planning through completion.
• The program’s cost savings will help fund additional team growth, giving you the opportunity to deliver meaningful business impact while strengthening the infrastructure behind LaunchDarkly’s next stage of scale.
• This role combines people leadership, operational ownership, and technical judgment.
• Responsibilities: Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career-development support.
• Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, including sequencing work, managing dependencies, communicating milestones, and ensuring a successful transition.
• Build leverage through software, automation, and paved paths that help product engineering teams use infrastructure safely and independently.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• You do not need to be the most senior individual contributor in the room, but you should be comfortable partnering with experienced engineers, guiding tradeoffs, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.
• Qualifications: 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.
• Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion.
• Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and operational priorities to a range of audiences.
• Nice to Haves Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP or other compliance-related infrastructure and operations.
• Experience operating large-scale datastores or OLAP systems.

Benefits and Perks

• Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level M2: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270** Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070** All Zones Inclusive of a 10% Bonus Target LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs.
• *Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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