Staff Engineer – Distributed Systems – Flag Delivery
LaunchDarklyBase Salary
$183k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and build resilient, scalable systems for globally delivering feature flag data with high availability and low latency.
- Own and evolve the global edge delivery network, streaming infrastructure, and data synchronization protocols.
- Improve system availability, performance, and operational excellence by identifying bottlenecks and designing for failure.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, SDK, product, and security teams to deliver seamless and secure customer experiences.
- Mentor and lead engineers through distributed-systems best practices, code quality, and systems thinking.
- Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and on-call rotations while improving reliability and observability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including a multi-year hands-on focus on distributed systems.
- Proven experience architecting, building, and operating complex large-scale backend and infrastructure services.
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, streaming protocols such as Server-Sent Events and WebSockets, and stateful connection management at scale.
- Expertise in Go, Java, Rust, or similar systems programming languages.
- Familiarity with real-time data pipelines, load balancing, and global edge networks or CDNs.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, telemetry, alerting, SLOs, low latency, and high availability.
- Experience operating systems in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with distributed data stores and caching systems such as Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, and Varnish.
- Proven technical leadership, including setting direction, decomposing complex problems, and influencing outcomes across teams.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
Tech Stack
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.