Backend Engineer, Real-Time Feature Streaming

LaunchDarkly Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Flag Delivery team. You will build and operate features and services in our streaming and polling infrastructure, owning end-to-end projects from design through production.

Expect to collaborate with multiple engineering teams while owning issues end to end and improving system reliability. You will grow your depth in distributed systems, debugging production issues, and participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software-engineering experience building production services.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python, Java) 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.

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

Go

API design

Distributed systems

On-call rotation

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Flag Delivery team. You will build and operate features and services in our streaming and polling infrastructure, owning end-to-end projects from design through production.

Expect to collaborate with multiple engineering teams while owning issues end to end and improving system reliability. You will grow your depth in distributed systems, debugging production issues, and participating in on-call rotations.