Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly empowers teams to deliver and control software safely through its feature-management platform. The Backend Engineer on the Flag Delivery team will build and operate highly scalable, reliable, low-latency systems that stream feature-flag configuration to connected SDKs globally, owning projects from design through production and contributing to observability, reliability, and distributed-systems operations.
Responsibilities
- Build, ship, and operate features and services in Flag Delivery's streaming and polling infrastructure
- Own well-scoped projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and the operational tail
- Investigate and fix production issues, participating in the team's on-call rotation with support
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and take part in code and design reviews
- Improve the observability and reliability of the code you own
- Collaborate with SDK Engineering, Data Platform, and product-engineering teams on work that crosses boundaries
- Grow your depth in distributed systems and production operations with mentorship from senior engineers
Skills
- 3+ years of professional software-engineering experience building production services
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python, Java, etc.) and familiarity with a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent)
- Solid fundamentals in data structures, concurrency, API design, and testing
- Experience debugging real production problems and a willingness to carry an on-call rotation
- Working familiarity with observability tooling and comfort reading dashboards, logs, and traces
- Ability to break down an ambiguous task, ask good questions, and drive it to done
- Clear written and verbal communication, and a genuine interest in learning from feedback
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
- Mentorship from senior engineers
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