Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 3 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $163k - $263.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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LaunchDarkly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $200M Series D on 2021-08

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

LaunchDarkly is a software company offering a platform for feature management and experimentation. Its solutions allow developers to control software releases through feature flags, enabling safeguarded and progressive rollouts. The platform integrates with various developer tools and supports multiple programming languages to streamline deployment and improve the developer experience. LaunchDarkly's solutions cater to industries including financial services, healthcare, high tech, retail, and government, among others, providing a robust infrastructure that aids in delivering customized and targeted user experiences.

📋 Description

• Design, build, test, and operate scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable production services and APIs • Lead large or ambiguous backend projects from problem definition through delivery and iteration • Make and communicate tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed • Identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, operational gaps, and technical friction, then drive improvements • Improve system observability and operability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, service-level objectives, and incident follow-through • Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and other engineering teams • Influence technical direction through design documents, architecture discussions, code reviews, and communication • Mentor engineers and contribute to inclusive collaboration and continuous improvement • Participate in production support and incident response • Develop reusable engineering patterns and developer experiences

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production software • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, API design, and distributed-systems concepts • Deep experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language • Experience designing reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable systems • Ability to lead technical projects with ambiguous requirements, multiple stakeholders, or cross-team dependencies • Sound judgment in architecture, technology choices, operational risk, and tradeoffs • Ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly and align technical and non-technical partners • Experience mentoring engineers and strengthening team practices • Strong ownership of production outcomes and downstream customer impact • Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and navigating changing priorities

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Mental health benefits • Remote work arrangement • Equal opportunity and diversity commitment • Disability accommodation support