Senior Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

🕒 August 12

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $163k - $224.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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LaunchDarkly

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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, and operate distributed systems delivering feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs. • Own and improve reliability, latency, and scalability of streaming and polling infrastructure. • Debug and resolve complex production issues while participating in the on-call rotation. • Partner with SDK, Core Product, and Data Platform teams on how flags reach customers. • Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews, design reviews, and production-readiness discussions. • Drive architectural decisions balancing performance, cost, and operability. • Improve observability, deployment safety, and operational processes for Flag Delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience • Significant experience with distributed or high-throughput production systems • Track record designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable, low-latency services • Production ownership, including on-call experience and focus on reliability and observability • Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Rust, or Python • Comfort with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform or equivalent • Experience with observability tooling, such as Datadog, Prometheus, or New Relic • Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and failure handling • Ability to write clean, maintainable code and collaborate on technical design • Clear communication and high standards for operational excellence

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Mental health benefits • Remote work arrangement