Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Core
Lead LaunchDarkly's Data Platform team to build and operate high-throughput systems ingesting, processing, and serving real-time and batch data for Experimentation, Metrics, Observability, and Release Guardian products.
Role type
Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Builds
High-throughput data backbone, ingestion endpoints, streaming/batch pipelines, and data stores powering customer-facing product experiences.
Domain
SaaS / Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership and coaching, distributed systems architecture, production system ownership, roadmap planning with Product Management, operational excellence (reliability/observability), hiring and talent development
Preferred skills
Go or Python, Kafka/Kinesis, ClickHouse, Airflow, Athena, Iceberg, Elasticsearch, Terraform
Technologies
Go, Python, Kinesis, Airflow, Athena, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Terraform, AWS, Datadog
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of backend engineers; Own delivery and resilience of production data systems; Partner with Product and engineering teams on roadmap; Act as primary communicator for the platform; Drive operational excellence and incident response; Build team norms; Participate in hiring
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership