Backend Engineer — Build scalable services & observability

Cervin

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 146,000 - 200,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

LaunchDarkly is hiring a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate services powering reliable software delivery. You will work on APIs, distributed systems, and SDK-related infrastructure, collaborating with Product, Design, Support, and Customer Success teams to deliver scalable solutions.

You will own components from design through production, learning from customer impact and shaping features for a broad customer base.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
Experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, or Rust; Go is most commonly used by our teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
Lead projects or meaningful components from problem definition through deployment.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed.
Improve observability and operability with metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to deliver useful outcomes.
Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, providing feedback.
Investigate production issues and translate lessons into lasting improvements.
Contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering.