Director of Engineering, Release Observability

August 15

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LaunchDarkly

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SaaS • Enterprise

LaunchDarkly is a software company offering a platform for feature management and experimentation. Its solutions allow developers to control software releases through feature flags, enabling safeguarded and progressive rollouts. The platform integrates with various developer tools and supports multiple programming languages to streamline deployment and improve the developer experience. LaunchDarkly's solutions cater to industries including financial services, healthcare, high tech, retail, and government, among others, providing a robust infrastructure that aids in delivering customized and targeted user experiences.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $200M Series D on 2021-08

📋 Description

• Lead the Release Observability product engineering group to build feature observability, runtime release guardrails and observability features and products. • Set vision and drive execution across multiple engineering teams, while collaborating with Product, Design, and Go-To-Market stakeholders to ensure our customers can trust and act on the data we provide. • Execution: Guide engineering strategy and execution across Release Observability teams, including collaboration with other product engineering and cross-functional groups to deliver great products for our customers. • Technical Excellence: Partner with product, design and key engineering leaders to build products and platforms that are statistically rigorous, intuitive, scale well, and integrate well with 3rd parties. • Organizational Building: Manage and mentor senior leaders, cultivate high-performing, high-agency, inclusive teams, and scale the org to meet evolving product needs. • Product Direction: Provide critical input on roadmap and architectural decisions, ensuring our product serves customers well and is resilient, performant, and flexible. • Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to define success metrics (particularly $ARR), respond to customer needs, and ensure successful launches. • Recruiting and Retention of Top Talent: Own hiring strategy — spanning decisions on new locations to changing interview loops to building a diverse pipeline and inclusive culture that also embraces experimentation with AI-tooling. • Principled Values: Model and evangelize a leadership style rooted in transparency, ownership, curiosity, and a bias for action.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including at least 2+ years leading Managers or multiple engineering teams. • Experience with observability systems, statistical analysis pipelines, and event-based metrics infrastructure. • Strong architectural understanding of data platforms, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure. • Demonstrated success scaling teams through multiple phases of company growth. • Prior experience at a product-led SaaS or DevTools company is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Health, vision, and dental insurance • Mental health benefits