LaunchDarkly
Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Remote (Worldwide)RemotePosted Today$171,200 – $235,400
Full TimeSeniorRemote
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Job Description
About the Job:LaunchDarkly is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to join our Flag Delivery team. Serving data to our customers is the core of our product and we’re expanding the team to add bandwidth
Key Highlights
- Build, improve, and operate backend services that power LaunchDarkly’s Flag Delivery systems.
- Contribute to systems that support streaming and polling delivery models for LaunchDarkly SDKs.
- Debug production issues, improve service reliability, and help the team maintain strong standards around latency, availability, observability, and operability.
- Work with technologies and patterns common to modern distributed backend systems, including caching layers, network services, concurrency, failure handling, and cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with partner teams including SDK, Platform, SRE, Security, and Enterprise to deliver improvements across the broader platform.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Experience building or operating production backend systems.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Rust, or a similar backend language; today the team primarily uses Go, with some Rust in the broader environment.
- Clear, existing AI usage in engineering work.
- Ability to use AI without surrendering technical judgment.
- Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals such as caching, concurrency, failure modes, and reliability.
- Experience debugging production issues and using observability to understand system behavior.
- Ability to reason clearly about code, architecture, and system behavior.
- Strong learning orientation and comfort working with senior engineers.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work well across engineering teams.
- Willingness to participate in on-call and production support.
Skills & Technologies
GoJavaRust
About the Company
LaunchDarkly
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$171,200 – $235,400
Location
Remote (Worldwide)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today