Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

🕒 July 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $158k - $257k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data 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, and operate distributed, data-intensive backend systems that power Data Platform capabilities across Experimentation, Metrics, Release Guardian, Observability, Agent Control, and other product areas • Own and improve production data infrastructure, including streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, warehouse export systems, observability, alerting, reliability, and performance • Debug and resolve complex production issues across data pipelines, databases, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems, including participating in the team’s on-call rotation • Partner with product managers, frontend engineers, UX designers, and other product engineering teams to deliver reliable customer-facing data capabilities • Write and review technical proposals, contribute to architecture decisions, and help the team make thoughtful trade-offs around scalability, reliability, cost, and operability • Improve engineering standards, testing practices, deployment safety, observability, tooling, and operational processes for Data Platform systems • Write maintainable, well-tested code and actively participate in code reviews, design reviews, and production readiness discussions

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience • Experience designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable production systems that move, store, process, or query large volumes of data • Hands-on experience with data pipeline, streaming, orchestration, or batch-processing technologies such as Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, Athena, Kafka, or equivalent systems • Experience working with analytical, event, warehouse, or operational data stores such as ClickHouse, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Timestream, Glue/Iceberg/S3, Redshift, Databricks, or equivalent systems • Strong programming experience in Go, Python, SQL, Scala, or similar backend languages • Familiarity with distributed systems and backend engineering fundamentals such as concurrency, data modeling, failure handling, retries, idempotency, partitioning, backpressure, and high-throughput processing • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or equivalent, and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or equivalent • A strong ownership mindset for production systems, including maintainability, testing, operational excellence, code quality, collaboration, and clear technical communication

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Health, vision, and dental insurance • Mental health benefits