Staff Engineer - Platform & AI Systems

LaunchDarkly Group; United States; On-site; USD 183,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly Staff Engineer role centers on shaping the technical direction of large-scale systems, data pipelines, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will drive architecture, ensure reliability at scale, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, design, and leadership to translate technical investments into tangible business outcomes, while balancing long-term strategy with pragmatic, incremental execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Deep understanding of event-driven architectures and scalable stateful systems.
• Expertise in Go, Java, Rust or similar systems languages (Go and a little Rust are used).
• Significant experience delivering and operating production software at scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across team or organizational boundaries, without relying on formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for complex, high-impact systems, products, or cross-team initiatives.
• Lead architecture and design work to improve scalability, performance, reliability, security, operability, and developer experience.
• Clarify ambiguous problems, identify the highest-leverage opportunities, and help teams make timely, well-informed decisions.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders to connect technical investments to customer and business outcomes.
• Influence teams outside your immediate area through strong technical proposals, inclusive decision-making, and clear communication.
• Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable patterns, paved paths, documentation, mentoring, and thoughtful process improvements.
• Contribute directly to critical projects when hands-on technical work is the best way to create leverage.
• Represent customer needs and production realities in technical and product discussions.
• Develop other engineers through mentorship, feedback, and opportunities to grow their scope.

Skills

Go

Java

Rust

Job description

LaunchDarkly Staff Engineer role centers on shaping the technical direction of large-scale systems, data pipelines, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will drive architecture, ensure reliability at scale, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, design, and leadership to translate technical investments into tangible business outcomes, while balancing long-term strategy with pragmatic, incremental execution.