Backend Engineer, Metrics
LaunchDarkly is a company focused on improving software delivery for developers. They are seeking a Backend Engineer for their Metrics team, responsible for building and maintaining backend features, developing internal APIs, and supporting service reliability work.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend features within the Metrics services, following established patterns and designs
- Help develop internal APIs that connect customer events to experimentation and release-safety workflows, with guidance from senior engineers
- Work with data pipeline teams to understand how events flow through ingestion, storage, and querying, and make targeted contributions where needed
- Assist in integrating event-driven capabilities into areas like AI Configs, Observability, and Experimentation
- Support service reliability work by adding tests, improving logs, tuning alerts, and helping investigate issues during development
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and planning sessions, asking clear questions and contributing thoughtfully
- Learn the operational side of running distributed systems, including debugging, monitoring, and safe rollout practices
Skills
- Experience with at least one server-side programming language and interest in working with Go
- Ability to build and maintain basic RESTful APIs using existing patterns
- Understanding of core computer science concepts such as data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems basics
- Familiarity with databases or event stores like Postgres, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, or similar
- Exposure to data or event-processing tools such as Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, or equivalents
- Basic experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, or willingness to learn
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog. Able to read dashboards and debug with guidance
- Willing to commute to Oakland twice a week
- Exposure to CI systems such as CircleCI or Spinnaker
- Early familiarity with experimentation frameworks or statistical ideas
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
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