Lead Engineer, Service Reliability

April 26

LaunchDarkly

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Empowering all teams to deliver and control their software.

Continuous Delivery • Feature Flagging • DevOps • Feature Toggling • Feature Management

201 - 500

💰 $200M Series D on 2021-08

Description

• Lead the development and continuous refinement of SRE tools and processes to improve software delivery, observability, reliability and operational efficiency. • Enable our engineers to deliver their services with higher autonomy, reliability, and performance through offerings written in Go and Terraform, or delivered through existing tools. • Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans and conduct regular testing and exercises. • Act as a primary technical liaison between SRE and neighboring teams. • Mentor and support team members in their professional development as well as service reliability engineering principles, tools, and processes. • Drive the adoption of new technologies, system designs and best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability across teams. • Proactively identify and resolve potential performance and scalability bottlenecks in our front-end and back-end systems. • Analyze the performance of SQL queries, suggest improvements and build guardrails for teams.

Requirements

• Experience leading team ceremonies: project ideation, planning, grooming, retrospectives, etc. • Comfort with large-scale, highly available distributed systems • Comfort with server-side web development (e.g., in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js) and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform) • Experience guiding the architectural direction and scalability considerations for new projects • A strong customer focus and ability to make technical decisions that tie back to business goals • Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Experience with observability tooling (Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.) • Experience with RDBMS technologies (CockroachDB/PostgreSQL/etc.) • Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and a high degree of empathy • You have a high bar for quality of code and quality of user experience

Benefits

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