Backend Engineer

LaunchDarkly Group; USA; Remote; USD 120.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Full Vision

Full Dental

Full Medical

Flexible Schedule

Healthy Lunches & Snacks

Conference & Meetup Access

Education Stipend

Personalized Work Station

Close to Public Transportation

Bike Parking

Team Activities

Unlimited paid time off policy

Work from home opportunities

Health insurance

Zusammenfassung

LaunchDarkly is seeking Backend Engineers in the United States to design, build, and operate services powering reliable software delivery. You will work on APIs, distributed systems, and backend infrastructure, owning work from design through production.

We're looking for strong software engineers with experience in Go, Python, or Rust, and a track record delivering observable, maintainable services at scale.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical partners.

Aufgaben

• Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
• Lead projects or meaningful components from problem definition through deployment.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, and other teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and incident learnings.
• Own work end-to-end from early design to production.

Kenntnisse

Go

Python

Rust

APIs

Distributed systems

Jobbeschreibung

• We have multiple backend engineering roles open on various teams. The specific level, scope, and technical focus will be aligned to the opportunity and the candidate’s experience. Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer tools, SDK engineering, data infrastructure, observability, or AI/agent systems may be relevant for some teams
• As a Backend Engineer at LaunchDarkly, you will design, build, and operate the services that power reliable software delivery for our customers. You may work on APIs, distributed systems, configuration and event pipelines, data services, SDK-related infrastructure, platform capabilities, or backend systems supporting our product experiences
• You will work with experienced engineers, Product, Design, and partner teams to turn customer and business needs into simple, scalable solutions. You will have the opportunity to own work from early design through production, learn from real customer impact, and contribute to systems that operate at meaningful scale
• Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs
• Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed
• Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to understand needs and deliver useful outcomes
• Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, sharing constructive feedback and learning from teammates
• Investigate production issues calmly and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements
• Contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering

Benefits

• Full Vision
• Full Dental
• Full Medical
• Flexible Schedule
• Healthy Lunches & Snacks
• Conference & Meetup Access
• Education Stipend
• Personalized Work Station
• Close to Public Transportation
• Bike Parking
• Team Activities
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance

5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experienceA collaborative approach and a sense of ownership for both your work and its downstream customer impactStrong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API designAbility to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partnersComfort learning unfamiliar systems and working through ambiguous problemsExperience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language. (Most of our teams use Go)Experience designing or contributing to services that need to be reliable, observable, and maintainable as usage grows