Backend Engineer

About LaunchDarkly Engineering LaunchDarkly helps engineering organizations ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control. Their platform enables teams to release gradually, target experiences to the right audiences, learn through experimentation, understand production behavior, and respond quickly to risks. Engineers build systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences spanning high-scale distributed systems, reliable data and event pipelines, intuitive workflows, and AI-powered capabilities. About the role Multiple backend engineering roles are open on various teams, with level, scope, and technical focus aligned to candidate experience. Relevant experience includes cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer tools, SDK engineering, data infrastructure, observability, or AI/agent systems. Backend Engineers design, build, and operate services powering reliable software delivery, working on APIs, distributed systems, configuration and event pipelines, data services, SDK infrastructure, platform capabilities, or backend systems supporting product experiences. Collaboration with Product, Design, and partner teams is essential to deliver scalable solutions. Engineers own work from design through production and contribute to large-scale systems. What you’ll do — Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs. — Lead projects or significant components from problem definition through deployment and iteration. — Make tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed. — Improve observability and operability of owned systems, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings. — Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and engineering teams to understand needs and deliver outcomes. — Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, sharing feedback and learning. — Investigate production issues calmly and turn operational lessons into improvements. — Contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering. Qualifications — 5+ years of experience building and operating production software or equivalent. — Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, API design. — Experience with backend languages such as Go, Python, Rust (most teams use Go). — Experience designing or contributing to reliable, observable, and maintainable services. — Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners. — Collaborative approach and ownership sense for work and customer impact. — Comfort with learning unfamiliar systems and working through ambiguous problems. Pay Target pay ranges for Level 3 based on US geographic zones: Zone 1 (San Francisco/Bay Area, NYC Metro, Boston, Seattle): $171,200 - $235,400 Zone 2 (Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago): $154,100 - $211,860 Zone 3 (All other US locations): $145,500 - $200,090 Compensation includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits. Additional information LaunchDarkly values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. They provide accommodations for disabilities and caution applicants about recruitment scams. Official applications are accepted only through verified channels. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/launchdarkly-backend-engineer-multiple-positions