# Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b3dedbca-13cb-4c76-b8ba-7a54d7765ae7

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

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: Remote - US
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 145500 – 235400 USD per year

## Summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the core systems that deliver feature flags to customers at scale. This role is ideal for someone with strong production debugging skills and distributed systems experience who wants to deepen their expertise on a senior, learning-focused team.

_Our summary, not LaunchDarkly's wording._

## Skills named

Concurrency, Go, Java, Rust

## Required

- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Production backend systems ownership
- Strong programming in Go, Java, or Rust
- Active use of AI in engineering work with sound judgment
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (caching, concurrency, failure modes, reliability)
- Experience debugging production issues and using observability
- Ability to reason clearly about code, architecture, and system behavior
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with streaming and polling delivery models
- Experience with SDKs or platform-level systems
- Rust experience specifically

Apply on LaunchDarkly's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7767461003