Senior Engineering Manager, SDKs
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LaunchDarklySoftware Development
Remote - USFull-TimeManager
SalaryZone 1: $240,600 - $330,700; Zone 2: $216,500 - $297,600; Zone 3: $204,500 - $281,100
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role
- Required Skills
- Distributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role, including managing senior engineers
- Experience leading teams that build developer-facing software: SDKs, client libraries, public APIs, or open-source projects used by external developers
- Working familiarity with several programming languages and ecosystems, and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs in a polyglot codebase
- Proven ability to prioritize across many stakeholders and to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates
- Track record of coaching and developing senior engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers
- Familiarity with observability practices and comfort with production incident response
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
- Own prioritization and intake for the SDK portfolio, balancing feature work, maintenance, security, and customer escalations across 35+ SDKs and the Relay Proxy
- Partner with Product Management to define and deliver the SDK and Relay Proxy roadmap, including version support and deprecation policy
- Guide technical tradeoffs across languages and platforms, and help the team keep our SDKs idiomatic, performant, and resilient
- Represent SDK engineering with customers, Support, Solutions, and Sales, and communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership
- Drive operational excellence in release quality, observability, and incident response for SDKs and the Relay Proxy
- Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos and bus factor, and keep engineers engaged
- Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar
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