Remote Backend SDK Engineer - High-Impact & Open-Source

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly's SDK team builds the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with daily, across 35+ SDKs, emphasizing performance, concurrency, and resiliency. You will contribute to much more than thin client wrappers as our SDKs are feature-rich agents.

We serve trillions of flags and influence both engineering and product decisions. As a Software Engineer on the SDK team, you will work with customers worldwide, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and help drive major

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers.
• Polyglot background with ability to switch languages quickly.
• 5+ years experience in at least two of .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java.
• Experience with the following is a plus: C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua.
• AI SDKs.
• Observability SDKs.
• Mobile development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment.
• Self-starter and problem solver.
• Strong testing background: unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks.
• Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability.
• Experience contributing to open-source software.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to SDK development across platforms.
• Implement new features and improvements for performance and resiliency.
• Keep up to date with latest development practices.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to release major features.
• Actively maintain open-source repositories.
• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices.
• Have an active voice in shaping technology and product decisions.

Skills

Library/package development

Polyglot programming

CS fundamentals

Collaborative work

Self-starter

Testing expertise

Production-grade code

Open-source contributions

5+ years multi-language

C++

Erlang

Haskell

Lua

AI SDKs

Observability SDKs

Mobile dev

Job description

LaunchDarkly's SDK team builds the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with daily, across 35+ SDKs, emphasizing performance, concurrency, and resiliency. You will contribute to much more than thin client wrappers as our SDKs are feature-rich agents.

We serve trillions of flags and influence both engineering and product decisions. As a Software Engineer on the SDK team, you will work with customers worldwide, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and help drive major