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$158,000 – $257,000
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What this role is
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.
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Skills this role names
- 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
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What they ask for
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