Staff Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Multiple Positions
$182.6-295.4k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Salary is partially dependent on location
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$182.6-295.4k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Salary is partially dependent on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- This level of expertise is typically found in engineers with 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, streaming protocols (e.g., Server-Sent Events, WebSockets), and stateful connection management at scale
- Expertise in Go, Java, Rust or similar systems programming languages. (We use Go and a little bit of Rust.)
- Significant experience delivering and operating production software, including systems or products with meaningful scale, complexity, or reliability requirements
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team or organizational boundaries, without relying on formal authority
- Experience making architecture and design decisions for complex systems and communicating the tradeoffs clearly
- A track record of turning ambiguous, high-impact problems into aligned plans and shipped outcomes
- Strong understanding of software quality, observability, operational health, security, and sustainable delivery practices
- Ability to balance long-term technical direction with pragmatic, incremental execution
- A collaborative leadership style grounded in curiosity, inclusion, clear communication, and respect for different perspectives
What the job involves
- Staff scope at LaunchDarkly is defined by impact rather than title alone. The specific domain may include platform infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, data systems, observability, experimentation, feature management, or AI/agent capabilities
- As a Staff Engineer at LaunchDarkly, you will provide technical leadership beyond a single team. You will help define direction for important systems or product areas, guide complex initiatives, and create leverage by enabling other engineers to make better decisions and deliver with confidence
- Staff Engineers at LaunchDarkly are trusted for their judgment, influence, and ability to connect customer needs, business goals, product strategy, and technical execution. You may lead architecture across multiple teams, establish durable patterns, improve developer effectiveness, or help the organization navigate a significant change in technology or product direction
- This is an individual contributor role. You will lead through expertise, communication, and influence rather than through direct people management
- Set technical direction for complex, high-impact systems, products, or cross-team initiatives
- Lead architecture and design work that improves scalability, performance, reliability, security, operability, and developer experience
- Clarify ambiguous problems, identify the highest-leverage opportunities, and help teams make timely, well-informed decisions
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders to connect technical investments to customer and business outcomes
- Influence teams outside your immediate area through strong technical proposals, inclusive decision-making, and clear communication
- Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable patterns, paved paths, documentation, mentoring, and thoughtful process improvements
- Contribute directly to critical projects when hands-on technical work is the best way to create leverage
- Represent customer needs and production realities in technical and product discussions
- Develop other engineers through mentorship, feedback, and opportunities to grow their scope
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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