Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Metrics
$187-257k
+Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$187-257k
+Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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)
Desirable
- Experience with CI/CD tooling like Spinnaker or CircleCI (or equivalents)
- Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, experimentation platforms, or statistical methods for measuring feature performance
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to play a crucial role in designing and scaling the services that power these capabilities
- You’ll work on systems that process high volumes of events and enable internal teams and customers to tie those events to meaningful product decisions
- Our work underpins features like AI Configs, Observability, and Product Analytics
- 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
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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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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