Backend Software Engineer, SDK

Job Overview

About LaunchDarkly Engineering LaunchDarkly helps engineering organizations ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control.

Our platform gives teams the confidence to release gradually, target experiences to the right audiences, learn through experimentation, understand what is happening in production, and respond quickly when risk appears.

Job Description

That creates an unusually broad set of technical challenges, visible customer impact, and room for engineers to shape what comes next. We believe in the power of teams.

We work with humility, openness, curiosity, and care; we value clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, inclusive collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership.

We encourage people to apply even when they do not meet every qualification listed below. We are interested in the experience, perspective, and potential you would bring to the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Our engineers build the systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences that make this possible.
• The work spans high-scale distributed systems, reliable data and event pipelines, intuitive enterprise workflows, and AI-powered capabilities that help teams manage the next generation of software delivery.
• As the company grows, we are expanding beyond traditional feature management into experimentation, observability, and AgentControl-helping customers control more of the software and AI lifecycle.
• About the Job As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis.
• Responsibilities: Contribute to development for SDKs in supported platforms : Implement new features and improvements to meet customer performance and resiliency requirements Keep up to date with the latest development practices Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features Actively maintain our open-source repositories Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions Basic Qualifications: Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly 5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java Experience with the following is a plus: C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua AI SDKs Observability SDKs Mobile development Strong computer science fundamentals Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability Experience contributing to open-source software Logistics: This is a remote role, with opportunities to visit the office in the Bay Area, California, for team offsites The SDK team is spread between Eastern and Pacific time zones Highlights: You will work collaboratively with a team of highly experienced engineers who are amazing at the craft of engineering and building SDKs Your contributions will be publicly visible as the SDK team develops LaunchDarkly’s open-source SDKs in public LaunchDarkly uses our own SDKs.
• You will have opportunities working with the other teams within LaunchDarkly In this role, you can learn about many programming languages and frameworks You will have opportunities to strongly influence roadmap and prioritization 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.
• 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.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Our platform gives teams the confidence to release gradually, target experiences to the right audiences, learn through experimentation, understand what is happening in production, and respond quickly when risk appears.
• Our engineers build the systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences that make this possible.
• LaunchDarkly’s SDKs are used in systems that perform trillions of feature flag evaluations each day, giving our engineering work a direct connection to the reliability and customer experience of software around the world.
• We encourage people to apply even when they do not meet every qualification listed below.
• We are interested in the experience, perspective, and potential you would bring to the role.
• Responsibilities: Contribute to development for SDKs in supported platforms : Implement new features and improvements to meet customer performance and resiliency requirements Keep up to date with the latest development practices Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features Actively maintain our open-source repositories Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions Basic Qualifications: Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly 5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java Experience with the following is a plus: C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua AI SDKs Observability SDKs Mobile development Strong computer science fundamentals Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability Experience contributing to open-source software Logistics: This is a remote role, with opportunities to visit the office in the Bay Area, California, for team offsites The SDK team is spread between Eastern and Pacific time zones Highlights: You will work collaboratively with a team of highly experienced engineers who are amazing at the craft of engineering and building SDKs Your contributions will be publicly visible as the SDK team develops LaunchDarkly’s open-source SDKs in public LaunchDarkly uses our own SDKs.
• Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
• Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software.

Benefits and Perks

• *Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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