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We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the vision and execution of our Core Engineering teams and to provide leadership across our entire engineering organization. Core Engineering is responsible for LaunchDarkly’s platform layer spanning core shared services (e.g. our internal orchestration engine) and our service platform layer (e.g. Kubernetes). In this role, you would have a wide impact not just within Core Engineering, but on shaping the current state and north star for engineering architecture and practice at LaunchDarkly. Areas of focus would range from deployments, authentication, core services across products, data models and stores, AI engineering and beyond. You would work cross-functionally at the intersection of business priorities, customer scale, and technical requirements and constraints.
This is a unique opportunity to have an immediate and ongoing organization-wide impact.
Partner with senior engineering leaders to define and articulate the architectural vision for the platform and establish an incremental path to realize it.
Develop and steward a prioritized platform roadmap that balances strategic capability development, operational excellence, and technical debt management.
Facilitate technical alignment across multiple engineering domains to ensure cohesive architecture and consistent execution standards.
Drive core data models, abstractions, and foundational capabilities towards accelerating the development of new and existing products.
Provide mentorship and guidance to engineering leaders to build organizational capability and support leadership development.
Influence architectural direction and ensure technical excellence through active participation in design and code reviews.
Champion a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and inclusion, with a focus on continuous learning and accountability.
Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to guide innovation and technical decision-making.
Innovate on our interviewing practices and be a bar raiser when it comes to making candidate decisions.
Champion efforts to experiment with AI engineering practices and drive education efforts to adopt meaningful practices with a focus on value over hype.
As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all engineers are responsible for supporting applications in production, including on-call.
Principal-level leadership experience influencing beyond their domain, shaping cross-functional strategies and technical direction across the organization.
Experience building and operating large-scale, production-grade web services.
Experience building and operating data stores such as CockroachDB or Aurora PostgreSQL.
Experience building serverless architecture as part of a larger service landscape.
Experience building with different authentication and transport protocols such as OAuth and REST.
Experience operating at the intersection of technical requirements and constraints, business priorities, and customer scale, and understanding how they all interplay.
The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration.
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 6:
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.
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at [email protected].
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LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that serves over 10 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can be easily turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). Our vision is to eliminate risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. As companies transition to a world built on software, there is an increasing requirement to move quickly, balanced with the desire to maintain control. LaunchDarkly is the feature management platform to control the entire feature lifecycle from Concept → Launch → Launch Value. LaDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer fast products and robust services. Our team culture is collaborative, and supportive.
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