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Backend Engineer (Multiple Positions)

LaunchDarkly· Engineering
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Remote$145.5k - $235.4kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Backend Engineer roles at LaunchDarkly. Remote - US. The teams work on APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, SDK infrastructure, platform capabilities, and backend systems powering reliable software delivery at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
  • Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to understand needs and deliver useful outcomes.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, sharing constructive feedback and learning from teammates.
  • Investigate production issues calmly and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements.
  • Contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production software in a professional environment, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and API design.
  • Experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language. (Most of our teams use Go)
  • Experience designing or contributing to services that need to be reliable, observable, and maintainable as usage grows.
  • Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
  • A collaborative approach and a sense of ownership for both your work and its downstream customer impact.
  • Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and working through ambiguous problems.

Skills

Required:Backend programmingAPI designDistributed systemsObservabilityCollaboration / communication

Benefits

  • RSUs (Restricted Stock Units)
  • health, vision, and dental insurance
  • mental health benefits
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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