LaunchDarkly
Senior Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$191,800 to $263,670
Location
United States only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - US, US - Oakland, CA (HQ)"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About the Job:
Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers teams to deliver and control it safely. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Flag Delivery team, you will own the critical-path systems that stream feature-flag configuration to every connected SDK globally, in near real time. These systems run at high scale and have to stay reliable, low-latency, and correct; when they fail, customers lose control of their features.
This is added headcount on a growing team. You will work on the next generation of the flag-delivery architecture, streaming rollouts, and reliability and scale hardening. Our stack is Go, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog, but exact tool match matters less than deep backend expertise and a track record of owning production systems.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
Debug and resolve complex production issues, sharing the team’s on-call rotation.
Partner with SDK, Core Product, and Data Platform teams on how flags reach customers.
Write maintainable, well-tested code and engage in code reviews, design reviews, and production-readiness discussions.
Drive architectural decisions, trading off performance, cost, and operability.
Raise the bar on observability, deployment safety, and operational process for Flag Delivery.
Qualifications:
6+ years of professional backend engineering, with significant work on distributed or high-throughput production systems.
Track record designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable, low-latency services.
Strong production ownership, including on-call experience and a focus on reliability and observability.
Proficient in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python) and comfortable on a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent).
Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic).
Deep grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals: concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and failure handling.
Writes clean, maintainable code and collaborates well on technical design.
Communicates clearly and holds a high bar for operational excellence.
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4:
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - 263,670**
Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270**
Requirements
- ·6+ years of professional backend engineering, with significant work on distributed or high-throughput production systems.
- ·Track record designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable, low-latency services.
- ·Strong production ownership, including on-call experience and a focus on reliability and observability.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at LaunchDarkly, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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