Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation Platform

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 163,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Experimentation team to design and operate scalable services powering a data-driven experimentation platform. You will own backend components, contribute to architecture, and collaborate across product, data science, and engineering to deliver reliable, measurable results.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and a strong focus on observability, with opportunities to impact customer outcomes and guide future platform direction.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing scalable, observable backend systems.
• Cloud experience and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience with data-intensive services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs powering the Experimentation product.
• Own backend components across their lifecycle, from discovery to maintenance.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate requirements into reliable tech solutions.
• Improve observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotation and mentor teammates.

Skills

Go programming

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Tools

Postgres

ClickHouse

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Experimentation team to design and operate scalable services powering a data-driven experimentation platform. You will own backend components, contribute to architecture, and collaborate across product, data science, and engineering to deliver reliable, measurable results.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and a strong focus on observability, with opportunities to impact customer outcomes and guide future platform direction.