Staff Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Experience Engineering
$182.6-295.4k
Salary dependent on location. Plus RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$182.6-295.4k
Salary dependent on location. Plus RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Deep technical experience, a scientific mindset, and the ability to influence product and technical direction are critical. You'll lead by example: setting the bar for rigor, mentoring teammates, and owning systems end to end, including on-call
- 10+ years building large-scale products with sophisticated audiences that are looking for help and leverage to do complex work
- Has built and designed the interfaces and supporting technology platforms in consumer-grade enterprise applications
- Technical leadership: setting direction, writing specs, influencing across teams
- BA/BS in mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field, or preferentially a graduate degree
- Plus: Go, Python, or similar (we use Go for services, Python for stats)
- Plus: Event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing for high-volume event ingestion and analysis
- Plus: Cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and data stores (ClickHouse, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, etc.)
- Plus: Experiment lifecycle tooling: flag–experiment integration, metric frameworks, automated monitoring
- Plus: Familiarity with the competitive landscape (Statsig, Eppo, GrowthBook, Optimizely)
- Plus: Funnel analysis, causal inference, or Bayesian experimentation experience
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer on LaunchDarkly's product engineering team, you'll design and build the next generation platform that helps all LaunchDarkly users (human and agent) interact and use our services
- Our product suite enables customers to run A/B tests, measure the impact of feature changes, and optimize experiences, and is integrated with a feature management and observability platform that processes trillions of evaluations daily
- This role sits at the forefront of our next generation of user interaction with our suite of products. We have a sophisticated set of users, and we have now learned through working with them and observing their usage patterns what a major redesign can do to help give them a more pleasant, productive, and efficient experience with our products
- You'll work across our entire product suite, focusing on understanding the key use cases, building the experiences and the supporting technical platform, and providing guidance and tools for other teams to be able to build better experiences more quickly
- Build and design our next generation of user experiences (human and agent) across the LaunchDarkly suite
- Collaborate with other product teams to ensure they have the tools and platform to build great user experiences
- Mentor engineers and raise the team's bar for technical rigor and system design
- Own operational excellence for the experience platform - monitoring, observability, incident response, on-call. Robust telemetry and alerting
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.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
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
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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