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Senior Backend Engineer (Multiple Positions)

LaunchDarkly

Remote · United States$15,983–21,973 gross/mofull-timeLaunchDarkly Careers

As a Senior Backend Engineer at LaunchDarkly, you will design, build, and operate the services that power reliable software delivery for our customers. You may work on APIs, distributed systems, configuration and event pipelines, data services, SDK-related infrastructure, platform capabilities, or backend systems supporting our product experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of large or ambiguous backend projects, breaking them into clear milestones and creating alignment with partners.
  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs that are scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable.
  • Make and communicate thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.
  • Identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, operational gaps, and sources of technical friction; then drive durable improvements.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, service-level objectives, and incident follow-through.
  • Collaborate with Product
  • Support, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to understand needs and deliver measurable customer outcomes.
  • Influence technical direction through design documents, architecture discussions, code reviews, and clear written and verbal communication.
  • Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and contribute to a culture of inclusive collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Participate in production support and incident response with calm ownership, turning operational lessons into lasting improvements.

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    Remote
    Seniority
    Senior
    Posted
    30 Sept 2026
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