Engineering Manager, Experimentation

LaunchDarkly is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Experimentation team. This role leads the team that builds and operates the core Experimentation product, from setup to results processing and display. The team is building a strategic platform that helps engineering organizations make product decisions with statistical confidence, sitting at the intersection of large-scale systems, data science, and user experience.

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities.
• Partner with PM and Design to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap items.
• Own the team's delivery of features, ensuring completion within timelines and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure decisions and cross-team dependencies.
• Communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Build team working norms that promote collaboration and reduce silos.
• Drive operational excellence — improve reliability, observability, and incident response for production data infrastructure.
• Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar.

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers.
• Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimations.
• Strong communication skills, especially in distributed team environments with cross-timezone collaboration.
• Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship.
• Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort with production incident response.
• Experience with Go or comparable backend languages (Java, Python, Rust) is a plus.
• Familiarity with data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks) and data pipeline tooling (Airflow, Prequel) is a plus.

Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level 2:

• 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. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. The platform improves velocity and stability of software releases, delivers targeted experiences, maximizes business impact of features, and provides insights into engineering cadence and stability.