Staff Engineer – Distributed Systems

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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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

• Architect, design, and build resilient and scalable systems for global feature-flag delivery, optimized for high availability and low latency. • Own and evolve the global edge delivery network, streaming infrastructure, and data synchronization protocols. • Improve system availability, performance, and operational excellence by identifying bottlenecks and designing for failure. • Collaborate with infrastructure, SDK, product, and security teams. • Mentor and lead engineers in distributed systems development, code quality, and systems thinking. • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to improve reliability and observability. • Participate in an on-call rotation and own service uptime and reliability.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience, with a multi-year hands-on focus on distributed systems. • Experience architecting, building, and operating complex, large-scale backend and infrastructure services. • Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, streaming protocols such as Server-Sent Events and WebSockets, and stateful connection management at scale. • Expertise in Go, Java, Rust, or similar systems programming languages. • Familiarity with real-time data pipelines, load balancing, and global edge networks/CDNs. • Experience with monitoring, observability, operational excellence, robust telemetry, actionable alerting, and SLOs for low latency and high availability. • Experience operating systems in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools. • Experience with distributed data stores and caching systems such as Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, or Varnish. • Proven technical leadership in setting direction, breaking down complex problems, and influencing outcomes across teams. • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation.

🏖️ Benefits

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