Senior Backend Engineer

About the Job:

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior 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:

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs that enable enterprise-grade automation, governance, and release management capabilities within LaunchDarkly.

• Translate complex enterprise customer requirements into resilient and maintainable technical solutions that empower large organizations to standardize software delivery practices.

• Lead technical discovery and architecture discussions, making thoughtful trade-offs that balance flexibility, scalability, and user experience.

• Partner closely with internal and external stakeholders—such as product managers, enterprise customers, and LaunchDarkly’s own engineering teams—to deeply understand and solve real-world release management challenges using our own platform.

• Champion best practices for backend development, system design, and observability while mentoring peers and raising the technical bar across the team.

• Participate in our you-build-it-you-run-it culture by owning code in production, contributing to on-call rotations, and continuously improving system reliability and supportability.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a track record of delivering high-impact systems in complex domains.

• Proven ability to design, build, and evolve distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable—ideally in environments supporting large enterprise customers.

• Strong programming experience, ideally with Go or comparable languages (e.g., Java, Rust, C++), and a demonstrated ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly.

• Experience designing and consuming APIs, especially in systems that facilitate automation or integrate with enterprise platforms.

• Solid understanding of domain modeling and system design, especially for building reusable abstractions and scalable internal frameworks.

• Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and a mindset for diagnosing production issues in distributed environments.

• A self-starter with strong ownership mindset, capable of navigating ambiguity and driving initiatives to completion.

• Enthusiasm for improving how software is delivered at scale—whether through automation, standardization, or empowering engineering teams with better tools and practices.

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 [email protected]. 

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