Staff Engineer, Experience Engineering
LaunchDarklyBase Salary
$183k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build next-generation user experiences for human and agent users across the LaunchDarkly product suite.
- Collaborate with product teams to provide tools and platform capabilities for building better user experiences.
- Set technical direction, write specifications, and influence product and technical decisions across teams.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for technical rigor and system design.
- Own operational excellence for the experience platform, including monitoring, observability, incident response, on-call, telemetry, and alerting.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale products for sophisticated audiences performing complex work.
- Experience designing interfaces and supporting technology platforms for consumer-grade enterprise applications.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through direction-setting, specification writing, and cross-team influence.
- BA/BS in mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related field, or a graduate degree is preferred.
- Go, Python, or similar programming experience is a plus.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing for high-volume event ingestion and analysis is a plus.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, ClickHouse, Redis, DynamoDB, or Kafka is a plus.
- Experience with experiment lifecycle tooling, metric frameworks, and automated monitoring is a plus.
- Familiarity with Statsig, Eppo, GrowthBook, or Optimizely is a plus.
- Funnel analysis, causal inference, or Bayesian experimentation experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Target base pay ranges by U.S. geographic zone, with ranges from $182,600 to $251,020 in Zone 3 and up to $214,800 to $295,350 in Zone 1.
- Restricted Stock Units, health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, and mental health benefits are provided in addition to salary.
- The role includes on-call responsibilities and operational ownership of the experience platform.
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About LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the runtime control layer for the AI era. For over a decade we have helped engineering teams control what ships in production, starting with feature management and evolving into the infrastructure that governs how software and AI agents behave after deploy. With CodeControl and AgentControl, teams can update agent behavior in milliseconds, automatically roll back when something drifts, and govern every agent and feature across the organization from one place. No redeploys required. LaunchDarkly processes more than 50 trillion flag evaluations per day and serves some of the most demanding engineering teams in the world, including over a quarter of the Fortune 500. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 for five consecutive years, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list, and the Inc. 5000.