Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation

The Experimentation team at LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable backend services for their experimentation platform. This role involves working with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to tackle complex, data-intensive problems. Responsibilities include owning backend components end-to-end, contributing to architectural decisions, and participating in on-call rotation.

6+ years professional software engineering experience, fluency with AI tools, experience in Go or comparable languages, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, APIs, data modeling, familiarity with data stores like ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, etc., production issue diagnosis, cloud environment, ability to handle ambiguous problems, clear communication, and experience with experimentation or data-intensive products.