LaunchDarkly's Metrics Team is looking for an experienced backend engineer to design and scale services that process high volumes of customer event data, enabling internal teams and customers to tie these events to meaningful product decisions and improve software delivery.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with server-side programming (preferably Golang)
- Strong proficiency in building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of core CS concepts: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
- Familiarity with event ingestion and querying across technologies like ClickHouse, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Timestream, Snowflake, or Glue/Iceberg/S3
- Experience working with stream and batch processing tools such as Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, or Athena (or equivalents)
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform (or equivalent)
- Proficiency with observability tools such as Datadog (or equivalent)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power Experimentation and Release Guardian at scale
- Evaluate and shape new product features from a technical perspective, identifying opportunities, tradeoffs, and implementation paths
- Develop internal APIs that connect customer events to experimentation and release safety workflows
- Collaborate with data pipeline teams to ensure accurate, reliable event processing and delivery
- Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate event-driven features into products like AI Configs, Observability, and Product Analytics
- Improve service reliability through observability, alerting, and operational tooling
- Actively participate in code reviews, spec discussions, and architecture design
Other
- This role requires strong engineering judgment, a focus on reliability, and close collaboration with other teams.
- If you're excited about turning raw signals into actionable insights that help teams ship software more safely, quickly, and reliably, we want to work with you.
- Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level 4:
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
- At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind.
