LaunchDarkly is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to play a key role in building a new product line on the Release Monitoring team. You’ll be part of the Release Observability pillar, which is focused on making every release safer, faster, and more reliable. Our mission is to redefine how software is released: automating release processes, measuring the real-time impact of feature rollouts, and simplifying debugging when things go wrong.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a history of contributing to robust, well-architected systems.
- Demonstrated experience working on scalable and reliable distributed systems, ideally in environments that support enterprise-grade requirements.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Rust, C++), with a willingness and ability to learn new technologies as needed.
- Experience partnering with data scientists and familiarity building data products (experimentation, analytics, big data visualizations)
- Experience building and consuming APIs, particularly in contexts that support system integration or workflow automation.
- Good understanding of system design and domain modeling, with some exposure to building reusable components or internal tooling.
- Familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, tracing, structured logging, and debugging in distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional partners (product, design, data science, and engineering) to architect and advance our observability products.
- Drive comprehensive end-to-end feature development, taking full ownership from proof of concept through to delivery.
- Proactively identify opportunities for product and user experience improvements, leveraging data insights and feedback to propose innovative, well-reasoned solutions.
- Provide expert mentorship and support to teammates, guiding them through complex challenges and fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment.
- Actively lead and contribute to code reviews, spec reviews, and architecture design, ensuring alignment with best practices, long-term scalability, and maintainability.
- Play a key role in advancing engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the technology organization.
- Harness the power of LaunchDarkly’s Observability SDKs that power our customers' applications, and aggregate all the data to measure user impact, and use them to make smart decisions about releases.
Other
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional partners (product, design, data science, and engineering) to architect and advance our observability products.
- Provide expert mentorship and support to teammates, guiding them through complex challenges and fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment.
- A collaborative engineer who takes ownership of their work, communicates clearly, and thrives in cross-functional teams.
- Experience working directly with customers and understands how their work impacts business goals
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
