Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

About the Job: We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, responsible for foundational infrastructure including AWS accounts, networking, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform and GitOps workflows, CockroachDB operations, disaster-recovery capabilities, and FedRAMP infrastructure posture. Responsibilities: — Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team with coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development. — Own operational health of cloud infrastructure including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery. — Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program from planning through completion. — Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs across AWS infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, GitOps, datastore operations, and compliance-related infrastructure. — Build leverage through software, automation, and paved paths to help product engineering teams use infrastructure safely and independently. — Support migrations with guidance and enablement while maintaining clear ownership boundaries. — Establish team norms for AI-assisted engineering and identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through AI and automation. — Maintain team health and continuity through change, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable environment. — Partner with various platform and product engineering teams on shared infrastructure priorities and dependencies. — Communicate roadmaps, operational risks, investment needs, and progress to leadership and stakeholders. — Participate in hiring and team planning as the organization grows. Qualifications: — 2+ years managing infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams at a product company, including people management of on-call teams. — Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks. — Experience leading multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing programs. — Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices. — Experience managing leadership transitions and maintaining team engagement and retention. — Clear perspective on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering. — Strong communication skills. — Calm and accountable leadership, especially during incidents and change. Nice to Haves: — Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management. — Experience supporting FedRAMP or compliance-related infrastructure. — Experience operating large-scale datastores or OLAP systems. — Experience growing a team through funded expansion. Pay: — Target pay ranges based on US geographic zones from $163,000 to $263,670 annually, inclusive of a 10% bonus target. About LaunchDarkly: LaunchDarkly provides a platform to improve software delivery velocity and stability, enabling developers to innovate faster with feature flagging and gradual rollouts, improving engineering productivity and customer experience. Equal Opportunity: LaunchDarkly is an equal opportunity employer valuing diversity and inclusion. Application: Apply via the provided link.