Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Metrics
$167-208.7k
+ RSU's
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167-208.7k
+ RSU's
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4+ years of experience in backend development, including expertise in building and maintaining APIs and large-scale data pipelines
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Go (preferred) or similar programming languages. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Snowflake)
- Metrics & Observability: Hands-on experience with observability tools, APM products, and telemetry systems like OpenTelemetry. Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Leadership: Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and take ownership of projects, driving them from conception to production
- Problem-Solving Expertise: Demonstrated track record of solving complex technical problems, designing scalable systems, and delivering customer-facing solutions
- Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with experience working in cross-functional teams
- Hybrid Work Readiness: Enthusiasm for participating in our hybrid work environment, with an in-office presence in Oakland and San Francisco
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking a Mid-Level Backend Engineer (L3) to join our Metrics Team, which powers the analytical backbone of our product offerings. This team plays a pivotal role in enabling features like Experimentation, Guarded Releases, and Error Monitoring by creating seamless and robust ways for users to capture and analyze metrics
- As an L3 Backend Engineer, you will contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, scalable systems that process and analyze large volumes of data.
- We are looking for a skilled and motivated engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, is passionate about backend development, and has a proven ability to deliver impactful solutions to complex problems. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
- You’ll work closely with our talented engineers, designers, and product managers to tackle challenging technical problems, mentor junior team members, and ensure the success of our metrics infrastructure. This role offers opportunities for leadership in project development, driving technical solutions, and influencing the evolution of our backend architecture
- Backend Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that process metrics and event data with a focus on performance and reliability
- Data Integration: Develop and maintain robust integrations with data sources like Snowflake and telemetry systems like OpenTelemetry to ensure efficient data ingestion and processing
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, helping to elevate the overall skillset of the team
- Collaboration: Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to ideate, create tech specs, and deliver impactful features for analytical tools
- Problem Solving: Address and resolve complex technical challenges related to data ingestion, storage, and processing with innovative and pragmatic solutions
- Continuous Improvement: Analyze system performance and customer feedback to drive optimizations for scalability, cost-efficiency, and user experience
- Code Excellence: Maintain high standards of code quality, including clear documentation, thorough testing, and comprehensive code reviews to ensure maintainability and scalability
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
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 values
- Build together, win together
- Create customer champions
- Learn and grow
- Widen the circle
- Work impactfully, work sustainably
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
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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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