Senior Engineering Manager, SDKs
Core
Lead the SDK team building and maintaining 35+ open-source SDKs, OpenFeature providers, event-streaming libraries, and the Relay Proxy to power LaunchDarkly's developer experience.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, SDKs
Builds
35+ open-source SDKs, OpenFeature providers, event-streaming libraries, contract tests, release tooling, and the Relay Proxy
Domain
Developer tooling, distributed systems, open source, software delivery
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Engineering management of senior engineers, leading developer-facing software teams (SDKs, client libraries, public APIs), polyglot technical judgment, stakeholder prioritization, coaching and performance management, open-source contribution
Preferred skills
Observability practices, production incident response
Technologies
Open-source SDKs, OpenFeature, Relay Proxy
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, own prioritization and intake for the SDK portfolio, partner with Product Management to define the SDK and Relay Proxy roadmap, guide technical tradeoffs across languages and platforms, represent SDK engineering with customers and leadership, drive operational excellence in release quality and incident response, build team working norms, participate in hiring
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
