# Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

Hiring organization: [LaunchDarkly](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/launchdarkly)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/3ef3bafb-fe8b-46dd-893f-dcc54f052766

Listed on LaunchDarkly's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 158000 – 257000 USD per year

## Summary

Build and operate distributed data infrastructure that powers LaunchDarkly's experimentation, metrics, and observability capabilities. This role suits backend engineers with 6+ years of production systems experience who want to own complex data pipelines and streaming infrastructure at scale.

_Our summary, not LaunchDarkly's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, ClickHouse, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Go, Python, Scala, SPARK, SQL, Terraform

## Required

- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Experience designing and operating production systems handling large data volumes
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline, streaming, or batch-processing technologies
- Experience with analytical or warehouse data stores
- Strong programming in Go, Python, SQL, Scala, or similar languages
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and observability tools
- Ownership mindset for production systems

## Nice to have

- Experience with Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, Athena, or Kafka specifically
- Experience with ClickHouse, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Timestream, Redshift, or Databricks specifically
- Familiarity with Terraform, Datadog, New Relic, or equivalent tools

Apply on LaunchDarkly's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7791926003