[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly empowers software teams to deliver and control software safely through feature-flag management. The Senior Backend Engineer on the Flag Delivery team will own critical-path distributed systems that stream feature-flag configurations to connected SDKs globally, focusing on architecture, reliability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs
• Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure
• Debug and resolve complex production issues, sharing the team’s on-call rotation
• Partner with SDK, Core Product, and Data Platform teams on how flags reach customers
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and engage in code reviews, design reviews, and production-readiness discussions
• Drive architectural decisions, trading off performance, cost, and operability
• Raise the bar on observability, deployment safety, and operational process for Flag Delivery

Skills

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering, with significant work on distributed or high-throughput production systems
• Track record designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable, low-latency services
• Strong production ownership, including on-call experience and a focus on reliability and observability
• Proficient in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python) and comfortable on a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent)
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic)
• Deep grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals: concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and failure handling
• Writes clean, maintainable code and collaborates well on technical design
• Communicates clearly and holds a high bar for operational excellence

Benefits

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

Company Overview

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://launchdarkly.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

LaunchDarkly has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 1 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 3 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.