Backend Engineer - Scalable APIs & Observability

Mixpeek; United States; On-site; USD 146,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly Engineering, based in the United States, is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate production services and APIs that power reliable software delivery. You will work with experienced teams across product and design to turn customer needs into scalable, observable solutions.

You will join a culture that values humility, openness, curiosity, and ownership, with opportunities to tackle data infrastructure, SDK tooling, and AI-enabled capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
• Experience 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.
• Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
• A collaborative approach and a sense of ownership for both your work and its downstream customer impact.
• Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and working through ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

API design

Distributed systems

Observability

Team collaboration

Job description

LaunchDarkly Engineering, based in the United States, is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate production services and APIs that power reliable software delivery. You will work with experienced teams across product and design to turn customer needs into scalable, observable solutions.

You will join a culture that values humility, openness, curiosity, and ownership, with opportunities to tackle data infrastructure, SDK tooling, and AI-enabled capabilities at scale.