Director of Engineering, Release Observability

Summary

Join LaunchDarkly as their Director of Engineering to lead the Release Observability product engineering group, focusing on feature observability, runtime release guardrails, and observability features and products. This strategic role requires setting the vision and driving execution across multiple engineering teams, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure customer trust in the provided data. Responsibilities include guiding engineering strategy and execution, partnering with product and design leaders to build high-quality products, managing and mentoring senior leaders, providing input on roadmap and architectural decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and owning the hiring strategy. The ideal candidate is a domain expert in observability and release principles, a seasoned people leader, a cross-functional collaborator, a strategic thinker, and a culture carrier who excels at hiring and retaining top engineering talent. LaunchDarkly offers a competitive salary, RSUs, health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including at least 2+ years leading Managers or multiple engineering teams
• Experience with observability systems, statistical analysis pipelines, and event-based metrics infrastructure
• Strong architectural understanding of data platforms, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure
• Demonstrated success scaling teams through multiple phases of company growth

Responsibilities

• Guide engineering strategy and execution across our Release Observability teams, including collaboration with other product engineering and cross-functional groups to deliver great products for our customers
• Partner with product, design and key engineering leaders to build products and platforms that are statistically rigorous, intuitive, scale well, and integrate well with 3rd parties
• Manage and mentor senior leaders, cultivate high-performing, high-agency, inclusive teams, and scale the org to meet evolving product needs
• Provide critical input on roadmap and architectural decisions, ensuring our product serves customers well and is resilient, performant, and flexible
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to define success metrics (particularly $ARR), respond to customer needs, and ensure successful launches
• Own hiring strategy — spanning decisions on new locations to changing interview loops to building a diverse pipeline and inclusive culture that also embraces experimentation with AI-tooling
• Model and evangelize a leadership style rooted in transparency, ownership, curiosity, and a bias for action

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience at a product-led SaaS or DevTools company is a plus

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary