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Senior Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

🕒 10 days ago
📍 🇺🇸 United States - Remote🎸 Senior🔎 Backend Engineer💼 Full-Time
Backend EngineeringDistributed SystemsGoRust
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📜 Description

  • Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
  • Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues, sharing the team's on-call rotation.
  • Partner with SDK, Core Product, and Data Platform teams on how flags reach customers.
  • Write maintainable, well-tested code and engage in code reviews, design reviews, and production-readiness discussions.
  • Drive architectural decisions, trading off performance, cost, and operability.

🛠️ Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional backend engineering, with significant work on distributed or high-throughput production systems.
  • Track record designing, building, operating, and debugging reliable, low-latency services.
  • Strong production ownership, including on-call experience and a focus on reliability and observability.
  • Proficient in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python) and comfortable on a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent).
  • Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic).
  • Deep grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals: concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and failure handling.
  • Writes clean, maintainable code and collaborates well on technical design.
  • Communicates clearly and holds a high bar for operational excellence.
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