Backend Engineer (Multiple Positions)

Job Overview

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.

Job Description

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’s experience.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The specific level, scope, and technical focus will be aligned to the opportunity and the candidate’s experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer tools, SDK engineering, data infrastructure, observability, or AI/agent systems may be relevant for some teams.
• 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.

Benefits and Perks

• *Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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