Engineering Manager, Warehouse Scale

IndiaOn-site

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of backend engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities •
Own the team's delivery of critical infrastructure — data export pipelines, DAG orchestration, warehouse health checks, and connection setup •
Collaborate with adjacent teams (Warehouse Integrations, Experimentation, Data Platform) on shared infrastructure decisions and cross-team dependencies •
Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos, and keep engineers engaged •
Drive operational excellence — improve reliability, observability, and incident response for production data infrastructure •
Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship •

experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers •
Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimations •
Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort with production incident response •
Experience with Go or comparable backend languages (Java, Python, Rust) is a plus •
Familiarity with data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks) and data pipeline tooling (Airflow, Prequel) is a plus About LaunchDarkly:

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In this role, you'll lead the team that builds and operates the foundational data infrastructure powering LaunchDarkly's warehouse-native products — data export pipelines, warehouse health checks, and warehouse connection setup.
You'll bring a balance of people management and technical leadership as you drive the development of critical platform infrastructure and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
You'll partner closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that enterprise customers depend on. Responsibilities: •
Partner with PM and Design to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap items, making scope tradeoffs in real time •
Communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders •
Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar
Experience building or operating data infrastructure at scale — pipelines, orchestration frameworks, or data platform systems •
Strong communication skills, especially in distributed team environments with cross-timezone collaboration •
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