Engineering Director – Core

LaunchDarkly

Director of Engineering leading teams for LaunchDarkly's core platform. Setting technical directions and managing engineering talent in remote US role.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $229,000 - $370,480 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Technical strategy: Set a clear, credible technical roadmap for your teams and communicate it up, down, and across the org.
Team leadership: Manage and grow a group of engineering managers and senior engineers. Hire, coach, and retain strong technical talent.
Cross-team execution: Drive complex, multi-team initiatives from design through delivery, including large migrations and infrastructure evolution.
Operational excellence: Own reliability and performance for systems in the critical path for customers, with real rigor around on-call, incident response, and observability.
Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with product, design, and other engineering leaders to align technical direction with business priorities.
Modern engineering practice: Bring emerging tools and AI-assisted development into your team's day-to-day to increase leverage.
Culture carrier: Build a high-trust, high-agency engineering culture, and act as a mentor and multiplier across the org.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced engineering leader: You've managed engineering managers and multiple teams, with a track record of growing technical leaders under you.
Deep technical background: Real hands-on experience as a software engineer, with exposure to distributed systems, high-scale infrastructure, or developer tools.
Comfortable with ambiguity: You set direction in a fast-changing environment and adjust as priorities shift.
Strong communicator: You translate technical tradeoffs into terms product, business, and executive stakeholders can act on.
Ships: You have a bias toward action and a track record of delivering complex technical projects end to end.
Team leadership: Experience managing engineering managers or multiple teams.
Technical depth: Significant hands-on experience with distributed systems, high-scale infrastructure, or developer tooling.
Project leadership: Track record owning a major technical migration or infrastructure initiative end to end.
Cloud & systems: Comfortable operating across cloud infrastructure and production distributed systems.
Hiring & development: Strong track record hiring and developing engineering talent.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
health, vision, and dental insurance
mental health benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Distributed SystemsHigh-Scale InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsTechnical MigrationIncident ResponseObservabilityAI-Assisted DevelopmentCloud OperationsPerformance ManagementTechnical Roadmap Development

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicatorComfortable With AmbiguityMentorshipCulture BuildingBias Toward Action