Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation
LaunchDarkly · Remote - US
Posted 27 days ago · $191,800 - $263,670
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days LaunchDarkly's roles stay open a median of 41 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 51% of LaunchDarkly's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at LaunchDarkly
- high 23 stale, 0 reposted of 53 open
- Hiring momentum
- 67 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from LaunchDarkly's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for LaunchDarkly.
About this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Experimentation team at LaunchDarkly, you will design and operate backend services and APIs for a platform that enables engineering organizations to make data-driven product decisions. Your role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex, data-intensive problems, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of the systems you build. You will also participate in on-call rotations and support your teammates through code and design reviews.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of LaunchDarkly as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Significant experience building and operating backend services in production
- Strong programming experience in Go or a comparable backend language such as Python, Rust, or C++
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, APIs, data modeling, or data-intensive services
- Familiarity with analytical, operational, or warehouse data stores such as ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent technologies
- Experience diagnosing production issues and improving system reliability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and other observability practices
Nice to have
- Fluency using AI tools in software engineering workflows
- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, data platforms, or similarly data-intensive products
What you get
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and comparable languages
- On-call rotation may require additional commitment
- Role involves significant collaboration with various teams, which may impact individual work focus
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Listed by LaunchDarkly on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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