Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation Platform

Cervin; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Experimentation team, building a platform that enables data-driven product decisions and rigorous experimentation at scale.

You will design and operate scalable backend services and APIs, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate customer needs into reliable technical solutions while maintaining observability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend services.
• Experience with distributed systems and data-intensive architectures.
• Proficient in Go; experience with Python, Rust, or C++ is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs.
• Own backend components from discovery to production and maintenance.
• Improve observability, testing, and deployment safety.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

APIs

Observability

Tools

ClickHouse

Postgres

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Databricks

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Experimentation team, building a platform that enables data-driven product decisions and rigorous experimentation at scale.

You will design and operate scalable backend services and APIs, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate customer needs into reliable technical solutions while maintaining observability and reliability.