Backend Engineer, Vega AI & Observability Platform

DaParrot Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly in the United States seeks a Backend Engineer to help build Vega, our AI-powered platform that surfaces insights and automates actions across LaunchDarkly products. This greenfield role focuses on Go services, APIs, and data pipelines at scale.

You will collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams across Observability and Feature Management, design sandboxed AI agent execution, and contribute to enterprise-grade capabilities for the Observability platform and Vega.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Go (or similar language) and experienced designing APIs and distributed services.
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features, agents, or AI-driven workflows.
• Experience with data-intensive systems—streaming pipelines, columnar stores, or high-volume ingest.
• Strong product instincts and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clean, well-scoped solutions.
• Collaborative and communicative, comfortable navigating ambiguity across teams.
• Familiarity with LaunchDarkly, feature flagging, or observability tooling is a plus.
• Experience with usage-based product surfaces, sandboxing/isolation technologies, or developer tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship backend features across the Vega platform (APIs, Go services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines)
• Own features end-to-end: from prototype and API design through production rollout and iteration
• Operate high-throughput data systems and keep them reliable, performant, and cost-efficient at scale
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers across Observability and Feature Management
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews, contributing to sound trade‑off decisions
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and promote best practices for quality, observability, and reliability
• Mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative, high‑trust engineering culture
• Participate in on‑call rotations and take ownership of production reliability for your features

Skills

Go programming

API design

Distributed systems

LLM features

Data pipelines

Tools

ClickHouse

Kubernetes

Job description

LaunchDarkly in the United States seeks a Backend Engineer to help build Vega, our AI-powered platform that surfaces insights and automates actions across LaunchDarkly products. This greenfield role focuses on Go services, APIs, and data pipelines at scale.

You will collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams across Observability and Feature Management, design sandboxed AI agent execution, and contribute to enterprise-grade capabilities for the Observability platform and Vega.