Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation
Core
Design and operate scalable backend services and APIs powering LaunchDarkly's Experimentation platform, enabling engineering organizations to make product decisions with statistical confidence.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Experimentation Platform)
Builds
Experimentation workflows, event data ingestion pipelines, metric computation services, and results presentation systems
Domain
SaaS / Data-intensive backend systems / Experimentation
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, analytical data stores (ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake), observability, infrastructure-as-code, production incident response, system design
Preferred skills
experimentation/A/B testing, data platforms, AI tools in engineering workflows
Technologies
Go, ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend services and APIs; own components across lifecycle (discovery to operation); build systems for experiment setup and data processing; contribute to architectural decisions; partner with PMs, designers, and data scientists; investigate production issues; improve observability and reliability; participate in on-call rotation; mentor teammates
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
