Careers at Launchdarkly

About the Job: We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, the team responsible for the foundational infrastructure our products and engineering teams depend on. Cloud Engineering owns LaunchDarkly’s AWS accounts and networking, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform and GitOps workflows, CockroachDB operations, disaster-recovery capabilities, and FedRAMP infrastructure posture. The team is small, senior, and recently rebuilt. This is a frontline leadership role for a manager who treats operational health as a top priority, leads calmly through incidents, and creates leverage through software, automation, and reliable paved paths. In your first year, you’ll lead a marquee infrastructure insourcing program from planning through completion. The program’s cost savings will help fund additional team growth, giving you the opportunity to deliver meaningful business impact while strengthening the infrastructure behind LaunchDarkly’s next stage of scale. This role combines people leadership, operational ownership, and technical judgment. You do not need to be the most senior individual contributor in the room, but you should be comfortable partnering with experienced engineers, guiding tradeoffs, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work. Responsibilities: Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career-development support. Own the operational health of LaunchDarkly’s cloud infrastructure, including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery. Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, including sequencing work, managing dependencies, communicating milestones, and ensuring a successful transition. Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs across AWS infrastructure, networking, multi-region Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, GitOps, datastore operations, and compliance-related infrastructure. Build leverage through software, automation, and paved paths that help product engineering teams use infrastructure safely and independently. Support migrations by providing guidance, patterns, and enablement while maintaining clear ownership boundaries with partner teams. Establish team norms for effective AI-assisted engineering and identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through AI and automation. Maintain team health and continuity through change, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable environment. Partner with Service Frameworks, Core Platform, Revenue Platform, Data Platform, and product engineering teams on shared infrastructure priorities and cross-team dependencies. Communicate roadmaps, operational risks, investment needs, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Participate in hiring and team planning as the organization grows. Qualifications: 2+ years of experience managing an infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team at a product company, including people management of an on-call team. Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks for critical production systems. Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion. Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices, with the judgment to guide discussions and tradeoffs with senior engineers. Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition. A clear point of view on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and operational priorities to a range of audiences. A thoughtful, calm, and accountable leadership approach, particularly during incidents and periods of change. Nice to Haves Experience with vendor negotiations or cloud cost management. Experience supporting FedRAMP or other compliance-related infrastructure and operations. Experience operating large-scale datastores or OLAP systems. Experience growing a team through funded expansion. Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level M2: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270** Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070** All Zones Inclusive of a 10% Bonus Target LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com . Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @ launchdarkly.com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com .

About the Job: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform team and help shape the high-throughput data backbone behind our most important products. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a technically deep team building and operating the systems that ingest, process, and serve the real-time and batch data powering Experimentation, Metrics, Observability, Release Guardian, AgentControl, and Data Export. Working primarily in Go and Python, your team tackles ambitious distributed-systems challenges with technologies including Kinesis, Airflow, Athena, and Iceberg on S3, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Terraform, AWS, and Datadog. From evolving real-time analytics and context data to strengthening streaming and batch pipelines, you’ll guide the platform that turns vast volumes of events into reliable, customer-facing product experiences while partnering across Core Engineering and product teams to make data faster, more resilient, and more useful for every LaunchDarkly customer. Responsibilities: Lead and develop a team of backend engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities Own the delivery, correctness, and resilience of Data Platform's production systems, including Tier 0 ingestion endpoints and the pipelines and data stores behind them Partner with Product Management and consuming engineering teams to scope, estimate, and sequence roadmap work, making tradeoffs in real time Act as the primary communicator and point of contact for Data Platform with engineering leadership, partner teams, and customers Drive operational excellence: reliability, observability, cost, incident response, and on-call health Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos and bus factor, and keep engineers engaged Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar Qualifications: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team of backend or infrastructure engineers Experience owning high-throughput, reliability-critical production systems such as event ingestion, streaming or batch pipelines, or large analytical data stores Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs with senior engineers Proven ability to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates Track record of coaching and developing engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship Strong communication skills in a distributed, cross-time-zone environment Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging) and comfort leading production incident response Experience with Go or Python, and with technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, ClickHouse, Airflow, Athena or Iceberg, Elasticsearch, and Terraform is a plus Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270** Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070** All Zones Inclusive of a 10% Bonus Target LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com . Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @ launchdarkly.com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com .

About the Job: We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the SDK team, the team behind LaunchDarkly’s developer experience across every platform. The team builds and maintains 35+ open-source SDKs, along with OpenFeature providers, event-streaming libraries, contract tests, release tooling, and the Relay Proxy. This is the code developers integrate directly into their applications and the primary way customers experience LaunchDarkly day-to-day. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents that bring LaunchDarkly’s capabilities into a wide range of languages, frameworks, and platforms, with a deep focus on performance, concurrency, resiliency, and idiomatic developer experiences. Trillions of feature flag evaluations run through code this team ships, giving the team an unusually direct impact on how safely and confidently engineering organizations deliver software. You’ll lead a senior, polyglot team working at the intersection of developer tooling, distributed systems, open source, and the next generation of software delivery. It’s an opportunity to shape a highly visible portfolio, influence how developers (including AI-assisted developers) integrate with LaunchDarkly, and help define what great developer infrastructure looks like at scale. This is a role with real technical and organizational scope: you’ll help set priorities across a large, long-lived ecosystem; guide decisions around compatibility, versioning, release quality, and resilience; and grow a team whose work is public, widely used, and central to LaunchDarkly’s product experience Responsibilities: Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career growth opportunities Own prioritization and intake for the SDK portfolio, balancing feature work, maintenance, security, and customer escalations across 35+ SDKs and the Relay Proxy Partner with Product Management to define and deliver the SDK and Relay Proxy roadmap, including version support and deprecation policy Guide technical tradeoffs across languages and platforms, and help the team keep our SDKs idiomatic, performant, and resilient Represent SDK engineering with customers, Support, Solutions, and Sales, and communicate roadmaps, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership Drive operational excellence in release quality, observability, and incident response for SDKs and the Relay Proxy Build team working norms that promote collaboration, reduce silos and bus factor, and keep engineers engaged Participate in hiring to grow the team and raise the engineering bar Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management role, including managing senior engineers Experience leading teams that build developer-facing software: SDKs, client libraries, public APIs, or open-source projects used by external developers Working familiarity with several programming languages and ecosystems, and the judgment to guide technical tradeoffs in a polyglot codebase Proven ability to prioritize across many stakeholders and to partner with Product Management to translate business goals into engineering plans with reliable estimates Track record of coaching and developing senior engineers, including performance management, career growth planning, and technical mentorship Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers Familiarity with observability practices and comfort with production incident response Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software is a plus Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level M3: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $240,600 - $330,700** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $216,500 - $297,600** Zone 3: All other US locations - $204,500 - $281,100** (All Zones Inclusive of 15% Bonus Target) LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com . Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @ launchdarkly.com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com .

About the Job: LaunchDarkly's Product Security team is hiring a Product Security Engineer II to strengthen how we secure the platform engineers build with every day. You'll bring depth in security fundamentals and program design as a member of a small, high-leverage team with strong engineering instincts. LaunchDarkly is critical infrastructure. Our security team keeps it safe for the global systems that depend on us. You'll spend most of your time on threat modeling and cloud security posture, with rotating exposure to the rest of the ProdSec surface area. Your work will help developers move fast without sacrificing security, through automation, guidance, and the kind of partnership that makes the secure path the easy one. You'll report to the Director of Security and work closely with software engineers, product managers, and other security engineers. We expect you to bring a sharp point of view on where AI can take work off the team's plate and make our coverage deeper. Responsibilities: Lead threat modeling engagements on the features and services where the risk warrants it. Partner with the ProdSec lead to evolve the practice from on-request to repeatable, with clear criteria for when an engagement is worth running. Own day-to-day triage of CNAPP findings end to end. Investigate, prioritize, route to service owners, and close the loop. Look for patterns that point to systemic fixes instead of one-off cleanup. Contribute to SDLC tooling, SAST / SCA workflows, and bug bounty triage as the team's work demands. Partner with product engineering teams as a trusted reviewer. Catch issues early, explain the why, propose paths forward. Say no when needed, with reasons and alternatives. Bring AI to the work. Use it to accelerate triage, summarize findings, draft threat models, scan code, and reduce toil. Help the team build durable patterns for safe and effective use, not one-off prompts. Push the security floor up over time through documentation, office hours, small tooling improvements, and the kind of compounding work that prevents incidents rather than responds to them. About You: You're proactive by default. You'd rather spot drift early and fix the cause than chase symptoms after an incident. You believe security is a craft of habits and systems. Small consistent improvements beat heroic one-offs. You invest in relationships with the engineering, product, and leadership teams you work with. You know security work moves at the speed of trust. You're a good partner. You're helpful and direct, you say no with reasons and alternatives, and you don't mistake gatekeeping for rigor. You're security-first by background but engineering-curious by nature. You want to understand how the systems work, not just what's wrong with them. You treat AI as part of the toolkit. You're skeptical where you should be, aggressive where it pays off, and you want to work somewhere that's serious about both. Qualifications: 2 to 4 years of full-time experience in a security-focused role. AppSec, ProdSec, or cloud security preferred. Comfortable reading and critiquing pull requests in a modern stack. You don't need to ship production services, but you should follow the code, ask sharp questions, and write small tools when it helps. Experience participating in or leading threat modeling exercises. Familiar with at least one structured approach (STRIDE, attack trees, or equivalent). Working knowledge of cloud security posture. Exposure to a CNAPP is a strong plus. Strong fundamentals: OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorization patterns, secrets management, common cloud misconfigurations. Hands-on experience applying AI tooling to security or engineering work. You can point to specific examples where it changed how you operated. Nice to Haves: Experience with developer tools, SaaS platforms, or feature management Bug bounty triage experience (HackerOne, Bugcrowd) Familiarity with Go, Python, or TypeScript Contributions to internal security tooling or open-source security projects Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $136,500 - $187,660* Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $122,800 - $168,850 ** Zone 3: All other US locations - $ 116,000 - $159,500 ** LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com . Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @LaunchDarkly .com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com .

About the Job: LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Experimentation team. The Experimentation team is building one of the company’s most strategic product areas: a platform that helps leading engineering organizations move beyond intuition and make product decisions with real statistical confidence. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale systems, data science, and user experience, the team is creating a best-in-class experimentation product that lets customers set up, manage, and analyze experiments with ease while still earning the trust of even the most rigorous data teams. From warehouse-native analysis to experimentation workflows built on top of LaunchDarkly’s massive feature management scale, this team is tackling ambitious technical problems with visible customer impact and a clear opportunity to define the future of modern software experimentation. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and operate the services that power this product, contribute to technical direction, and help deliver new functionality to customers. You will work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers across LaunchDarkly to solve complex, data-intensive problems with meaningful customer impact. Responsibilities: Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs that power LaunchDarkly’s Experimentation product. Own backend components across their lifecycle, including technical discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement. Build and evolve systems supporting experiment setup, event data ingestion, metric computation, results processing, and results presentation. Contribute to architectural decisions and technical proposals, making thoughtful trade-offs around scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability. Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, and adjacent engineering teams to translate customer needs and product goals into reliable technical solutions. Collaborate with Data Platform, Warehouse Integrations, SDK, and other teams on shared data flows, services, and cross-team dependencies. Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes. Improve observability, testing, deployment safety, operational processes, and the reliability of the systems you build. Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and take ownership of production systems in a you-build-it-you-run-it culture. Support teammates through thoughtful code reviews, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and informal mentorship. Qualifications: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating backend services in production. Fluency using AI tools in software engineering workflows, including the judgment to direct, evaluate, and validate AI-generated output. Experience designing and delivering customer-facing systems that are scalable, reliable, observable, and maintainable. Strong programming experience in Go or a comparable backend language such as Python, Rust, or C++. Our team is using Go. Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, APIs, data modeling, or data-intensive services. Familiarity with analytical, operational, or warehouse data stores such as ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent technologies. Experience diagnosing production issues and improving system reliability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and other observability practices. Experience working in a cloud environment and with infrastructure-as-code or equivalent deployment and operations tooling. Ability to take an ambiguous problem from discovery and scoping through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operation. Clear, thoughtful communication and a collaborative approach to working with technical and non-technical partners. Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, data platforms, or similarly data-intensive products. Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270** Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070** LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com . Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @ launchdarkly.com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com .

About the Job: LaunchDarkly is looking for a Backend Engineer to help build and expand Vega, our AI-powered platform that surfaces insights and automates actions across LaunchDarkly products. This is a greenfield opportunity: you'll help evolve Vega from an Observability-focused assistant into a cross-product platform that serves Feature Management customers and powers a new, usage-based SKU. You'll build the APIs, services, and agent infrastructure that make Vega and the whole Observability platform broadly valuable—enabling capabilities like AI-driven dashboard creation, flag cleanup automation, and safe, sandboxed agent execution. You'll work primarily in Go services and data pipelines at significant scale, and collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to shape how AI capabilities land across LaunchDarkly. Additionally, you'll work on other Enterprise-grade capabilities for the Observability platform to help drive customer activation and success. Responsibilities: Design, build, and ship backend features across the Vega platform (APIs, Go services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines) Own features end-to-end: from prototype and API design through production rollout and iteration Operate high-throughput data systems and keep them reliable, performant, and cost-efficient at scale Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers across Observability and Feature Management Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews, contributing to sound trade-off decisions Write well-tested, maintainable code and promote best practices for quality, observability, and reliability Mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of production reliability for your features What You'll Work On Expand Vega beyond Observability into Feature Management, including the flag cleanup agent as a cross-product capability Design and operate safe, sandboxed AI agent execution infrastructure—isolation, resource limits, permissions, and auditability Support enterprise capabilities for the Observability platform: building data import and export pipelines to connect O11y to other platforms and enabling new customer workflows Build a platform that other teams can contribute to—defining contribution patterns, shared services, and APIs for agent capabilities Power dashboard creation via natural language prompts, extending existing Vega infrastructure with new tools, context, and evaluation Build the metering and usage pipelines that enable a usage-based monetization model for Vega Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering standards across the Observability and Vega teams About You: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality backend systems Proficient in Go (or a similar language like Java, Rust, or C++) and experienced designing APIs and distributed services Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features, agents, or AI-driven workflows Experience with data-intensive systems—streaming pipelines, columnar stores (e.g., ClickHouse), or high-volume ingest is a strong plus Strong product instincts: you care about how your systems are used and can translate ambiguous requirements into clean, well-scoped solutions Collaborative and communicative—you work well across teams and functions, and you're comfortable navigating ambiguity Familiarity with LaunchDarkly, feature flagging, or observability tooling is a plus Experience with usage-based product surfaces, sandboxing/isolation technologies, or developer tooling is a plus Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 3: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, 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 ** LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 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