About the Job:
LaunchDarkly is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build enterprise-scale capabilities that empower the world’s largest organizations to adopt feature management best practices.This team helps the world’s biggest organizations take LaunchDarkly best practices to the next level—making release management a powerful, everyday part of software delivery. They empower teams to build, visualize, standardize, and automate their processes.
By championing organizational best practices and driving customer maturity, they unlock real business value. With a mix of systematic process innovation and enterprise-grade tools, they reimagine how organizations ship software—turning release management into something scalable, seamless, and consistent across every team.
In this role, you’ll partner with a talented cross-functional team to bring powerful backend services to life in Go, design APIs that drive new automation and governance workflows, and build the internal frameworks that make enterprise adoption seamless.
You’ll tackle complex, real-world technical challenges—the same ones LaunchDarkly faces at scale—and your solutions will make a direct impact not only on how we work internally, but also on how our largest customers deliver software to the world.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power enterprise automation, governance, and release management features within LaunchDarkly.
Contribute to technical solutions that address complex enterprise customer needs, helping large organizations adopt consistent and reliable software delivery practices.
Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define and implement end-to-end features that support compliance and operational maturity.
Participate in architecture and design discussions, offering thoughtful input and collaborating with senior engineers to make well-informed trade-offs.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including other LaunchDarkly engineering teams, to understand real-world challenges and improve release management workflows using our own platform.
Follow and promote best practices for backend development, testing, and observability, contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.
Take ownership of code in production, participate in on-call rotations, and help improve the reliability and maintainability of our systems over time.
Qualifications:
5+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a history of contributing to robust, well-architected systems.
Demonstrated experience working on scalable and reliable distributed systems, ideally in environments that support enterprise-grade requirements.
Proficiency in Go (Golang) along with experience in another modern programming language (e.g., Java, Rust, C++), with a willingness and ability to learn new technologies as needed. (Our team writes applications in Go)
Experience building and consuming APIs, particularly in contexts that support system integration or workflow automation.
Good understanding of system design and domain modeling, with some exposure to building reusable components or internal tooling.
Familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, tracing, structured logging, and debugging in distributed systems.
A collaborative engineer who takes ownership of their work, communicates clearly, and thrives in cross-functional teams.
Enthusiasm for improving how software is delivered at scale—whether through automation, standardization, or empowering engineering teams with better tools and practices.
What LLM are you
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level P3:
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $167,000 - $229,000**
Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $150,000 - $206,000**
Zone 3: All other US locations - $141,000 - $195,000**
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.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
About LaunchDarkly:
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com.
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