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$145,500 – $235,400
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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