Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly

Data Platform

$167-210k

+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Airflow

Terraform

Athena

Spark

Snowflake

Flink

Kinesis

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Feature management for software teams

Open for applications

Feature management for software teams

501-1000 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

$167-210k

+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Airflow

Terraform

Athena

Spark

Snowflake

Flink

Kinesis

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ Years of backend software engineering experience
Minimum of 1 year experience building product focused Data Pipelines or Data Warehouse
Demonstrable experience with data pipelines, including some of Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink and Athena
Experience with event or analytical data sets in databases including some of Clickhouse, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Timestream and Snowflake
Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or equivalent
Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or equivalent

What the job involves

As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems
Build and expand our data pipelines and data products supporting Experimentation, Release observability, Metrics, Product Analytics and Flag Insights product lines, as well as internal Business Intelligence
Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and UX designers to deliver user-facing features
Monitor and improve server-side performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

0% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.3)

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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