Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to join their Flag Delivery team, focusing on serving data to customers. The role involves building and improving backend services, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring system reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Build, improve, and operate backend services that power LaunchDarkly’s Flag Delivery systems
- Contribute to systems that support streaming and polling delivery models for LaunchDarkly SDKs
- Debug production issues, improve service reliability, and help the team maintain strong standards around latency, availability, observability, and operability
- Work with technologies and patterns common to modern distributed backend systems, including caching layers, network services, concurrency, failure handling, and cloud infrastructure
- Collaborate closely with partner teams including SDK, Platform, SRE, Security, and Enterprise to deliver improvements across the broader platform
- Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership of the systems you help build
- Learn the existing architecture deeply and make pragmatic improvements that increase system clarity, performance, and maintainability
- Use AI as part of your engineering workflow with sound judgment, including knowing when to use it, how to direct it effectively, and how to verify or reject its output
- Reason clearly about code, architecture, and whole-system behavior even when AI is in the loop
Skills
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Experience building or operating production backend systems
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Rust, or a similar backend language; today the team primarily uses Go, with some Rust in the broader environment
- Clear, existing AI usage in engineering work
- Ability to use AI without surrendering technical judgment
- Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals such as caching, concurrency, failure modes, and reliability
- Experience debugging production issues and using observability to understand system behavior
- Ability to reason clearly about code, architecture, and system behavior
- Strong learning orientation and comfort working with senior engineers
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work well across engineering teams
- Willingness to participate in on-call and production support
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
- LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs.
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