Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

US - Oakland, CA (HQ)💼 Full-time💰 $145,500–$145,500🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Build and operate backend services powering LaunchDarkly's Flag Delivery systems, serving data to customers via real-time production systems at scale.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Flag Delivery)

Builds

Backend services and streaming/polling delivery models for LaunchDarkly SDKs

Domain

SaaS / Feature Flagging / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Go, Java, Rust, distributed systems, caching, concurrency, failure handling, cloud infrastructure, debugging, observability, AI fluency

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Go, Rust, cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

Build and operate backend services for Flag Delivery; Contribute to streaming and polling delivery models; Debug production issues and improve reliability; Collaborate with SDK, Platform, SRE, and Security teams; Participate in on-call rotation; Learn architecture and make pragmatic improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About launchdarkly

Software Development646Oakland, CA, USFounded 2014

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