LaunchDarkly

Backend Software Engineer, SDK

Work from home

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 7 days ago · Added 6 days ago

First listed 7 days ago and still open.

Salary

$171,200 to $235,400

Location

United States only

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.

Working hours: The SDK team is spread between Eastern and Pacific time zones
Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: 5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java
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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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java”

Written as a nice-to-have

“Experience with the following is a plus:”

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About the role

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’s 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—helping 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 Job

As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis. You’ll work with multiple technologies across our 35+ SDKs while enabling customers of all kinds to feature flag their code. When working on our SDKs, you’d be contributing to much more than thin client wrappers. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents with strong emphases on performance, concurrency, and resiliency -- all while following idiomatic practices for their tech stack.

LaunchDarkly serves trillions of feature flags daily to customers all around the globe, and every flag is handled by our SDKs. This team has a major impact not only on our company, but on our customers (and their customers). We are growing fast and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story.

Responsibilities:

Contribute to development for SDKs in supported platforms :

Implement new features and improvements to meet customer performance and resiliency requirements

Keep up to date with the latest development practices

Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features

Actively maintain our open-source repositories

Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices

Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions

Basic Qualifications:

Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers

Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly

5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java

Experience with the following is a plus:

C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua

AI SDKs

Observability SDKs

Requirements

·Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers
·Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly
·5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java

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.

Found 7d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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