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Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation

LaunchDarkly
Location
Remote - US
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Measure Engineering
Salary
$191,800 - $263,670
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Significant experience building and operating backend services in production
  • Strong programming experience in Go or a comparable backend language such as Python, Rust, or C++
  • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, APIs, data modeling, or data-intensive services
  • Familiarity with analytical, operational, or warehouse data stores such as ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent technologies
  • Experience diagnosing production issues and improving system reliability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and other observability practices
Nice to have
  • Fluency using AI tools in software engineering workflows
  • Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, data platforms, or similarly data-intensive products
What the job really is

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Experimentation team at LaunchDarkly, you will design and operate backend services and APIs for a platform that enables engineering organizations to make data-driven product decisions. Your role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex, data-intensive problems, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of the systems you build. You will also participate in on-call rotations and support your teammates through code and design reviews.

Benefits
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Mental health benefits
Things to weigh
  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and comparable languages
  • On-call rotation may require additional commitment
  • Role involves significant collaboration with various teams, which may impact individual work focus
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