# Senior Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/5de5253d-50bf-4a35-9c43-7c467218ffdf

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

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 163000 – 263670 USD per year

## Summary

A senior backend engineer role focused on building and operating the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to SDKs at scale. This suits experienced production engineers with a track record in high-throughput systems who want ownership of critical infrastructure.

_Our summary, not LaunchDarkly's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Go, New Relic, Prometheus, Python, Rust, Terraform

## Required

- 6+ years backend engineering with significant work on distributed or high-throughput systems
- Track record designing, building, and operating reliable, low-latency services
- Production ownership experience including on-call rotation
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, or Python)
- Comfortable working on a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Hands-on with observability tooling like Datadog, Prometheus, or New Relic
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, failure handling)
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and collaborate on technical design

Apply on LaunchDarkly's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7861200003