Responsibilities
- Design and manage scalable, distributed backend systems that support data platform features in experimentation, metrics, release monitoring, observability, agent control, and related domains.
- Take ownership of production-grade data infrastructure, including real-time streaming and batch processing pipelines, analytical databases, data warehouse exports, monitoring, alerting, and system performance.
- Diagnose and resolve critical production issues across data workflows, storage systems, cloud environments, and distributed services, including participation in on-call rotations.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, UX designers, and engineering teams to deliver robust, customer-facing data solutions.
- Develop and evaluate technical designs, contribute to architectural decisions, and guide trade-offs involving scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.
- Enhance engineering practices, including testing standards, deployment safety, observability, tooling, and operational workflows for data platform systems.
- Produce clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code while actively engaging in code reviews, design critiques, and production readiness assessments.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
Work Arrangement
Remote — San Francisco/Bay Area, NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle, Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago, All other US locations
Other
- Engineers are responsible for supporting the systems they develop in production, including on-call duties.
- The company fosters a culture rooted in high trust and transparency.
- Committed to being an equal opportunity employer without discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Candidates may request access to the written Affirmative Action Plan by emailing hr@launchdarkly.com.
- Disability accommodations are available through a formal request process.
- Recruiting communications are sent exclusively from @launchdarkly.com or verified LinkedIn profiles.
- No job offers are extended without completing a formal interview process.
- No legitimate communication will request money, fees, or banking details prior to an offer.
- Suspicious messages can be reported to careers@launchdarkly.com.
