Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly is a company that helps engineering teams make data-driven decisions through their experimentation platform. As a Staff Engineer on the Experimentation team, you will build and design statistical engines and experimentation systems while collaborating cross-functionally to enhance product development.
Responsibilities
- Build the experimentation statistical engine — hypothesis testing, sequential analysis, variance reduction (CUPED, Winsorization), power analysis. Ensure statistical correctness across all experiment types
- Design warehouse-native experimentation that runs analysis inside customer warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery). Build modular, warehouse-agnostic abstractions for rapid new backend support
- Lead adaptive experimentation — contextual bandit systems, Bayesian optimization, automated allocation beyond simple A/B tests
- Drive the platform roadmap with product, design, and data science. Shape what we build, not just how
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Warehouse Integrations, SDK, Platform, and Data Science teams
- Mentor engineers and raise the team's bar for statistical rigor and system design
- Own operational excellence — monitoring, observability, incident response, on-call. Robust telemetry and alerting
Skills
- 10+ years building large-scale experimentation platforms, statistical analysis systems, or data-intensive backend services
- Applied-statistics knowledge: hypothesis testing, sequential analysis, variance reduction (CUPED), power analysis, experiment design. Comfortable with frequentist vs. Bayesian trade-offs
- Experience with adaptive experimentation ML — contextual bandits, Thompson sampling, Bayesian optimization, or RL-based allocation
- Track record designing warehouse-agnostic systems across Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar
- Expertise in Go, Python, or similar for backend services and statistical computation
- Experience with event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and large-scale data processing
- Cloud environments (AWS, GCP) with infrastructure-as-code
- Technical leadership: setting direction, breaking down complex problems, influencing across teams
- Ability to translate statistical concepts for product and engineering audiences
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
- Disability accommodation via accommodations request form
- Equal opportunity employer and value diversity
- Affirmative Action Plan available upon request
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