Staff Solutions Architect, LaunchDarkly
Artificial Intelligence
$158-257k
Salary dependent on location. Plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$158-257k
Salary dependent on location. Plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- You are a self‐starter and excited to take on hard problems
- You are passionate about helping customers and have a strong sense of ownership
- You can effectively communicate with experts from different backgrounds, and build strong stakeholder relationships
- You have a technical background and are interested in a customer-facing role
- You are a deeply curious individual, who is not comfortable with just getting enough context to give an answer. You feel the need to understand how things work underneath
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise software, platform engineering, or solutions architecture roles
- Strong hands-on technical background with a consultative, customer-focused approach
- Experience implementing and advising across the full software development lifecycle in enterprise environments
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, including Python, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Go, or similar
- Experience working with low code/no code solutions i.e. Claude Code, Cursor, Retool etc
- Experience working with AI/ML-enabled systems, such as:
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Prompt-driven or agentic workflows
- Chatbots, copilots, or conversational interfaces
- Model or prompt experimentation and evaluation
- Familiarity with AI development tooling and datasets, including Python-based data workflows
- Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar approaches to tool-augmented or agent-based AI systems (or strong interest in learning)
- Ability to guide customers in DevOps, CI/CD, and modern release practices, including experimentation and progressive delivery
- Experience leading teams through development or platform transformations
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information and provide prescriptive technical recommendations
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements while prioritizing effectively
- Experience in both pre-sales and post-sales customer engagements
- Experience with LaunchDarkly or other feature management / experimentation platforms
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience working with Linux, containers, and virtualized environments
- Open to 20% travel
What the job involves
- Solutions Architects at LaunchDarkly are the core of our elite Professional Services organization, helping customers decouple deploy from release to enable rapid, reliable, and safe software delivery
- As a key member of the Revenue team, you will apply your technical expertise to guide customers through transformative implementations of LaunchDarkly, acting as a trusted advisor throughout their journey
- As a Staff Solutions Architect - AI, you will lead strategic engagements focused on helping customers adopt and operationalize AI-powered applications and platforms using LaunchDarkly
- This includes supporting use cases such as feature-gated AI rollouts, safe experimentation with LLM-driven systems, AI governance, and progressive delivery of agentic workflows
- In this role, you will work closely with engineering, platform, and AI leaders to help them integrate LaunchDarkly into modern AI architectures, ensuring AI systems are released safely, observed continuously, and optimized through experimentation
- LaunchDarkly’s Services team is recognized as best-in-class among our peers. We are rapidly growing, deeply invested in, and central to the company’s strategic vision
- You’ll be part of a high-impact organization redefining how teams ship software and AI-powered products at some of the world’s most innovative companies across Technology, Finance & Insurance, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, and Entertainment
- As a Staff Solutions Architect, you won’t just implement a product-you’ll drive organizational change
- You’ll help customers establish best practices for AI delivery, experimentation, and governance, enabling them to move fast without compromising safety or reliability
- Lead complex Professional Services engagements focused on AI-enabled and traditional software delivery, aligning customer goals with LaunchDarkly best practices
- Partner with customers to design and implement feature management strategies for AI systems, including LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and internal AI platforms
- Advise customers on safe rollout patterns for AI, such as progressive exposure, guardrails, kill switches, and experimentation for model behavior and prompts
- Support customers building and operating chatbots, copilots, and agent-based systems, helping them integrate LaunchDarkly into inference-time and workflow-level decisions
- Apply a consultative approach to understand customer architectures, gather detailed requirements, and influence key technical and organizational decisions
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, platform, DevOps, and AI leaders
- Identify and resolve technical obstacles that hinder value realization, particularly in complex, distributed, or AI-driven systems
- Establish yourself as a subject matter expert on LaunchDarkly and emerging AI delivery patterns, continuously evolving your expertise as the landscape changes
- Advocate for customers by synthesizing feedback and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to shape future AI-related capabilities
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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