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$163,000 – $224,070
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What this role is
LaunchDarkly is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and operate scalable services for their experimentation platform, which helps companies run statistical analysis on product decisions. This role suits engineers with 6+ years building production systems who want to work on data-intensive infrastructure at scale.
Our summary, not LaunchDarkly’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Redshift
- Business Metrics
- C++
- ClickHouse
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Data Modeling
- Data Pipelines
- Databricks
- Go
- Google BigQuery
- Infrastructure as Code
- Python
- Rust
- Snowflake
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Significant experience building and operating backend services in production
- Fluency using AI tools in software engineering workflows
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, observable, and maintainable customer-facing systems
- Strong programming experience in Go or comparable backend language
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or data-intensive services
- Familiarity with analytical, operational, or warehouse data stores
- Experience diagnosing production issues and improving system reliability
- Experience working in cloud environments with infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Ability to manage problems from discovery through design, implementation, launch, and operation
- Clear communication and collaborative approach
- Participation in on-call rotation
Nice to have
- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, data platforms, or similarly data-intensive products