163K–264K USD / year
Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering
Engineering managerWorkplace — unknown
Published on 2026-09-24
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About this role
The Engineering Manager will lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, focusing on foundational infrastructure, operational health, and a multi-quarter insourcing program. The role encompasses people leadership, technical judgment, and the management of cloud infrastructure, incident response, and team development.
About the company
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that lets teams release, target, and control product features with flags without redeploying code.
The team
Cloud Engineering team
Stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformGitOpsCockroachDB
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team
- Own the operational health of cloud infrastructure
- Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program
- Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs
- Build leverage through software and automation
- Support migrations while maintaining clear ownership boundaries
- Establish team norms for AI-assisted engineering
- Communicate roadmaps and operational risks
What we're looking for
- 2+ years managing an infrastructure or platform engineering team
- Ownership of incident response and service-level objectives
- Experience leading multi-quarter infrastructure migrations
- Technical fluency with AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience in maintaining engagement through leadership transitions
- Point of view on AI-assisted engineering practices
- Strong communication skills
- Calm leadership approach during incidents
Nice to have
- Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management
- Experience supporting FedRAMP compliance
- Experience operating large-scale datastores
- Experience growing a team through funded expansion