LaunchDarkly: Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

About the role

Headquarters: Remote - US 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. The team is small, senior, and recently rebuilt. This is a frontline leadership role for a manager who treats operational health as a top

Requirements

• 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.
• Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks for critical production systems.
• Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion.
• Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices, with the judgment to guide discussions and tradeoffs with senior engineers.
• Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition.
• A clear point of view on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and operational priorities to a range of audiences.
• A thoughtful, calm, and accountable leadership approach, particularly during incidents and periods of change.