- Lead and develop a team of backend engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities
- Own the delivery, correctness, and resilience of Data Platform's production systems, including Tier 0 ingestion endpoints and the pipelines and data stores behind them
- Partner with Product Management and consuming engineering teams to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap work, making tradeoffs in real time
- Act as the primary communicator and point of contact for Data Platform with engineering leadership, partner teams, and customers
- Drive operational excellence across reliability, observability, cost, incident response, and on-call health
- 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
- Lead the Data Platform team building and operating systems that ingest, process, and serve real-time and batch data powering LaunchDarkly products
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers
- Experience owning high-throughput, reliability-critical production systems such as event ingestion, streaming or batch pipelines, or large analytical data stores
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs with senior engineers
- Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates
- Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship
- Strong communication skills in a distributed, cross-time-zone environment
- Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort leading production incident response
- Experience with Go or Python, and with technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, ClickHouse, Airflow, Athena or Iceberg, Elasticsearch, and Terraform is a plus
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in leading backend engineering teams, focusing on operational excellence, system reliability, and effective communication across distributed teams. Proficient in managing high-throughput production systems and translating business objectives into actionable engineering plans.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Team Leadership
- High-Throughput Production Systems
- Distributed Systems Fundamentals
- Coaching and Mentorship
- Observability Practices
Hard Skills
- Software Engineering
- Backend Engineering
- Production Systems Management
- Technical Mentorship
- Performance Management
Soft Skills
- Strong Communication Skills
- Collaboration
- Feedback and Coaching
Industry Keywords
- Data Platform
- Operational Excellence
- Incident Response
- Real-Time Data Processing
- Batch Data Processing
Tools & Technologies
- Go
- Python
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- ClickHouse
- Airflow
- Athena
- Iceberg
- Elasticsearch
- Terraform
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