SDK Software Engineer, LaunchDarkly
$145.5-235.4k
Salary dependent on location. Plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$145.5-235.4k
Salary dependent on location. Plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Mobile development
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment
- Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary
- Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks
- Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability
- Experience contributing to open-source software
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- You will work collaboratively with a team of highly experienced engineers who are amazing at the craft of engineering and building SDKs
- Your contributions will be publicly visible as the SDK team develops LaunchDarkly’s open-source SDKs in public
- LaunchDarkly uses our own SDKs. You will have opportunities working with the other teams within LaunchDarkly
- In this role, you can learn about many programming languages and frameworks
- You will have opportunities to strongly influence roadmap and prioritization
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into a leading business in the feature management space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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