Full-Time

Full Stack Engineer

Experimentation

LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly

501-1,000 employees

DevOps feature management and experimentation platform

Compensation Overview

$145.5k - $235.4k/yr

+ RSUs

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
React.js
TypeScript
AWS
Go
Observability
DevOps
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience building full stack web applications.
  • Familiarity with Typescript, React, Node, and Go is preferred but not required.
  • Solid grasp of software engineering principles, design patterns, and coding best practices.
  • Exposure to building or maintaining scalable, production-grade systems.
  • Familiarity with observability practices and tools (e.g., logging, metrics, monitoring).
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with a team-oriented mindset.
  • Comfortable working in Agile development environments.
  • Experience with CI/CD practices and tools.
  • Passion for writing high-quality code and continuously improving engineering practices.
  • A self-motivated approach and willingness to take initiative.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
  • Prior experience working with or contributing to distributed teams is a plus.
Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products, with attention to usability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions that impact system scalability and performance.
  • Lead limited scope features from definition to deployment.
  • Help identify and troubleshoot performance issues and participate in efforts to optimize service reliability.
  • Work closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to implement new features and iterate on existing functionality.
  • Participate in code reviews to support code quality and share constructive feedback with teammates.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that enhances the reusability and readability of team systems.
  • Contribute to the team’s efforts to improve observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
  • Help investigate and resolve production issues, occasionally partnering with customer support or other teams as needed.
  • Collaborate across functions to align on priorities, surface blockers, and improve team workflows.
  • Learn from and support more senior engineers, and contribute to a culture of growth, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Stay current with industry trends related to software development, experimentation, and backend technologies.
  • Demonstrate curiosity, creative thinking, and a proactive mindset in problem-solving.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with React and TypeScript, Node, and Go is preferred but not required.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus.
  • Prior experience working with or contributing to distributed teams is a plus.

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform for developers in the DevOps space. It helps teams control and automate features in their software so they can ship code safely, run experiments themselves, deliver personalized experiences, and revert feature behavior without changing code. The platform typically runs as a subscription service that integrates into development workflows to reduce risk, speed up releases, and maximize the impact of each software feature. Its differentiation comes from a developer-first approach that emphasizes in-production feature flags, self-serve experimentation, and targeting options to improve reliability and productivity. Overall, LaunchDarkly aims to help customers innovate faster, automate and de-risk software releases, lower delivery costs, and boost the business impact of features.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$330.3M

Headquarters

Oakland, California

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Snowflake Native App distribution keeps experiment data inside customer accounts.[1]
  • Warehouse-native experimentation reduces analytics friction for Snowflake-standardized enterprise teams.[1]
  • Guarded releases and runtime control align with AI agents and AI SDLC workflows.[4]

What critics are saying

  • Cloud incumbents bundle feature management into broader contracts and undercut standalone pricing.
  • AI-agent runtime control is crowded; hyperscalers can copy guardrails and win distribution.
  • Observability and analytics acquisitions create product sprawl and margin pressure if adoption slows.

What makes LaunchDarkly unique

  • Feature management decouples deploys from releases using runtime flag evaluation.[2][5]
  • AgentControl extends LaunchDarkly into AI-agent runtime governance with sub-200-millisecond propagation.[4]
  • Highlight adds observability, while Houseware adds warehouse-native product analytics.[4]

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Benefits

Flexible work environment - Making an inclusive space for everyone means recognizing we all have our own individual working styles and needs.

Health and wellness - LaunchDarkly offers full coverage with health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.

Salary and options - We're all in this together. LaunchDarkly offers competitive pay, equity, and the option to participate in a 401(k) program.

Learn and grow - We love to see our own continue to grow their skill sets—whether that's taking a class or attending a conference.

Growth & Insights and Company News

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AI Transform
Oct 13th, 2025
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LaunchDarkly has unveiled Vega, an AI-powered diagnostic agent designed to pinpoint root causes and recommend solutions for software regressions at the moment of release.

CNBC
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Asana picks Dan Rogers, formerly of ServiceNow, to replace CEO Dustin Moskovitz

Asana's new CEO, Dan Rogers, comes from software startup LaunchDarkly, where he was CEO.

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Galaxy 2025: Building boldly in the age of AI

LaunchDarkly Group unveiled new capabilities for AI Configs - your control plane for managing prompt and model configurations at runtime.

Digitpatrox
Apr 28th, 2025
LaunchDarkly to "double down" on observability with Highlight acquisition

Feature management specialist LaunchDarkly has announced the acquisition of open-source observability platform, Highlight.

FF News
Apr 23rd, 2025
LaunchDarkly Acquires Highlight to Make Guarded Software Releases the New Standard, as UK Industries Grapple With Mounting Tech Outages

LaunchDarkly, the comprehensive feature management platform that lets software and AI development teams ship faster while de-risking their releases, today announces the acquisition of Highlight, a powerful, open source, full-stack application monitoring platform known for its error monitoring, logging, distributed tracing and session replay capabilities.