Engineering Director, Core

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

Cross-team execution: Drive complex, multi-team initiatives from design through delivery, including large migrations and infrastructure evolution. •

Modern engineering practice: Bring emerging tools and AI-assisted development into your team's day-to-day to increase leverage. •
Experience managing engineering managers or multiple teams. •
experience with distributed systems, high-scale infrastructure, or developer tooling. •

Hiring & development: Strong track record hiring and developing engineering talent. Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level M4: •
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or New York City Metropolitan Area: $269,400 - $370,480** •
Zone 2: Boston, DC , Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Seattle: $242,500 - $333,410 ** •
Zone 3: All other US locations: $229,000 - $314,930**
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs.
Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly:

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As Director of Engineering, you'll lead the teams behind LaunchDarkly's core platform — the infrastructure our customers depend on every time they ship.
You'll set technical direction across multiple engineering teams, grow a bench of strong managers and senior engineers, and make sure the systems in our critical path stay fast, reliable, and ready to scale.
We'd prefer this person to be based in the US, any time zone. Responsibilities: •
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. •
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. •
Culture carrier: Build a high-trust, high-agency engineering culture, and act as a mentor and multiplier across the org. About You: •
Experienced engineering leader: You've managed engineering managers and multiple teams, with a track record of growing technical leaders under you. •
Comfortable with ambiguity: You set direction in a fast-changing environment and adjust as priorities shift. •