LaunchDarkly
Backend Engineer (Multiple Positions)
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
From the employer's advert: *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago 路 Added 4 weeks ago
Listed for 22 days before it closed.
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$171,200 to $235,400
Location
United States only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
What the advert says
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- Working hours
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Where you can work from
- Location eligibility not confirmed
- Contract
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- Experience asked for
5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Pay
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $171,200 - $235,400**
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
Backend Engineer
About LaunchDarkly Engineering
LaunchDarkly helps engineering organizations ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control. Our platform gives teams the confidence to release gradually, target experiences to the right audiences, learn through experimentation, understand what is happening in production, and respond quickly when risk appears.
Our engineers build the systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences that make this possible. The work spans high-scale distributed systems, reliable data and event pipelines, intuitive enterprise workflows, and AI-powered capabilities that help teams manage the next generation of software delivery.
LaunchDarkly鈥檚 SDKs are used in systems that perform trillions of feature flag evaluations each day, giving our engineering work a direct connection to the reliability and customer experience of software around the world. As the company grows, we are expanding beyond traditional feature management into experimentation, observability, and AgentControl鈥攈elping customers control more of the software and AI lifecycle. That creates an unusually broad set of technical challenges, visible customer impact, and room for engineers to shape what comes next.
We believe in the power of teams. We work with humility, openness, curiosity, and care; we value clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, inclusive collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership. We encourage people to apply even when they do not meet every qualification listed below. We are interested in the experience, perspective, and potential you would bring to the role.
About the role
We have multiple backend engineering roles open on various teams. The specific level, scope, and technical focus will be aligned to the opportunity and the candidate鈥檚 experience. Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer tools, SDK engineering, data infrastructure, observability, or AI/agent systems may be relevant for some teams.
As a Backend Engineer at LaunchDarkly, you will design, build, and operate the services that power reliable software delivery for our customers. You may work on APIs, distributed systems, configuration and event pipelines, data services, SDK-related infrastructure, platform capabilities, or backend systems supporting our product experiences.
You will work with experienced engineers, Product, Design, and partner teams to turn customer and business needs into simple, scalable solutions. You will have the opportunity to own work from early design through production, learn from real customer impact, and contribute to systems that operate at meaningful scale.
What you鈥檒l do
Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed.
Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to understand needs and deliver useful outcomes.
Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, sharing constructive feedback and learning from teammates.
Investigate production issues calmly and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements.
Contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
Experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language. (Most of our teams use Go)
Experience designing or contributing to services that need to be reliable, observable, and maintainable as usage grows.
Requirements
- 路5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- 路Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
- 路Experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language. (Most of our teams use Go)
- 路Experience designing or contributing to services that need to be reliable, observable, and maintainable as usage grows.
- 路Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
Benefits
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