Backend Software Engineer, SDK
LaunchDarkly3 hours ago
Base Salary
$146k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve SDKs for supported platforms.
- Implement features focused on customer performance, concurrency, resiliency, quality, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams on major feature implementation and releases.
- Maintain LaunchDarkly’s open-source SDK repositories.
- Identify improvements, advocate for best practices, and contribute to technology and product decisions.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers.
- A polyglot programming background and ability to switch between languages quickly.
- At least five years of experience with at least two of .NET, Go, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Java.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and production-ready coding experience.
- Strong testing experience with unit, integration, load, and benchmark tests.
- Experience contributing to open-source software.
- Experience with C++, Erlang, Haskell, Lua, AI SDKs, observability SDKs, or mobile development is a plus.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, solve difficult problems, and work independently when needed.
Benefits
- Remote role with opportunities to visit the Bay Area, California office for team offsites.
- Contributions to publicly visible open-source SDKs and opportunities to learn multiple programming languages and frameworks.
- Opportunities to influence roadmap and prioritization and collaborate with other LaunchDarkly teams.
- Restricted Stock Units, health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, and mental health benefits.
About LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly sells a feature management platform for software teams, providing feature flags, experimentation, observability, and runtime controls for code and AI agents. Its SaaS products help release safely, target rollouts, and adjust behavior after deploy without redeploys. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, the company processes tens of trillions of flag evaluations daily and is used by over a quarter of the Fortune 500.