LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly

Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

Remote - US · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$187k-$257kDetected 5 days ago
PythonGoScalaDistributed SystemsCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLElasticsearchRedshiftDatabricksCloud PlatformsTerraformDatadogDevOpsKafkaSparkAirflowData EngineeringA/B TestingCadenceCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • You will work on streaming and batch processing systems, analytical data stores, warehouse export infrastructure, and the operational foundations needed to keep these systems reliable at scale.
  • Exact tool match is less important than strong backend engineering experience, distributed systems judgment, and a track record of owning production systems.
  • About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate distributed, data-intensive backend systems that power Data Platform capabilities across Experimentation, Metrics, Release Guardian, Observability, Agent Control, and other product areas.
  • Own and improve production data infrastructure, including streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, warehouse export systems, observability, alerting, reliability, and performance.
  • Partner with product managers, frontend engineers, UX designers, and other product engineering teams to deliver reliable customer-facing data capabilities.
  • Write maintainable, well-tested code and actively participate in code reviews, design reviews, and production readiness discussions.
  • Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software.
  • Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
  • We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including significant experience with infrastructure, data platform, distributed systems, or data-intensive production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline, streaming, orchestration, or batch-processing technologies such as Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, Athena, Kafka, or equivalent systems.
  • Experience working with analytical, event, warehouse, or operational data stores such as ClickHouse, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Timestream, Glue/Iceberg/S3, Redshift, Databricks, or equivalent systems.
  • Strong programming experience in Go, Python, SQL, Scala, or similar backend languages.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and backend engineering fundamentals such as concurrency, data modeling, failure handling, retries, idempotency, partitioning, backpressure, and high-throughput processing.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or equivalent, and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or equivalent.
  • Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise.
  • Experience designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable production systems that move, store, process, or query large volumes of data.
  • A strong ownership mindset for production systems, including maintainability, testing, operational excellence, code quality, collaboration, and clear technical communication.
  • Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4:
  • Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $187,000 - $257,000**
  • Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $168,000 - $231,000**
  • Zone 3: All other US locations - $158,000 - $218,000**
  • LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency
  • we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Compensation

  • Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4:
  • Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $187,000 - $257,000**
  • Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $168,000 - $231,000**
  • Zone 3: All other US locations - $158,000 - $218,000**
  • LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs.
  • Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Benefits

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
  • LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan.
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