Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Reliability and delivery are core differentiators in SaaS, and this Senior Engineering Manager role sits directly on that fault line. The listing points to ownership of a global flag delivery system with high SLA expectations—work that underpins how customers safely ship changes in production. In the broader SaaS ecosystem, feature management and controlled rollout infrastructure has become a foundational layer for modern product delivery, making platform leadership here materially consequential.
From a career standpoint, the role offers sustained exposure to operating and evolving high-availability services while balancing product roadmap ownership with technical stewardship. That combination—service reliability, platform simplification, and cross-team prioritisation—maps closely to how mature SaaS companies scale: through incremental architectural improvement, metrics-informed decision-making, and strong alignment between engineering and product surfaces.
This position is best suited to an established engineering manager who enjoys working through ambiguity in production systems and can guide senior engineers through tradeoffs without defaulting to purely technical or purely managerial approaches. It will likely appeal to leaders motivated by operational accountability, pragmatic platform evolution, and stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical groups.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Job:
We’re looking for a senior engineering leader for our Flag Delivery team. In this role, you’ll own one of the largest-scale, highest-SLA pieces of the internet. With your team of senior engineers you’ll own and improve the global delivery system that LaunchDarkly’s customers depend on in production.
You’ll bring a balance of people management and technical leadership as you drive the development of impactful platform changes and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
Responsibilities:
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Manage the portfolio of your team’s work, appropriately managing everyone’s time and assigning them to the highest priority work.
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Help your team make sense of — and simplify — the production system
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Own the product roadmap and collaborate with adjacent teams
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Have fun with your team, finding ways to enjoy the work
Qualifications:
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5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role.
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Experience operating high-scale and/or HA services
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Experience guiding teams through technical tradeoffs and developing senior engineers' careers.
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The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
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Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration.
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level M3:
- Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $214,800 - $295,350**
- Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $193,400 - $265,870**
- Zone 3: All other US locations - $182,600 - $251,020**
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.
About LaunchDarkly:
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:
- Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
- Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
- Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
- Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
- Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
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 hr@launchdarkly.com.
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