Backend Engineer, Observability

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LaunchDarklySoftware Engineering

Remote - USFull-TimeSenior

SalaryZone 1: $171,200 - $235,400; Zone 2: $154,100 - $211,860; Zone 3: $145,500 - $200,090

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5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality backend systems
Proficient in Go (or a similar language like Java, Rust, or C++)
Experienced designing APIs and distributed services
Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features, agents, or AI-driven workflows
Strong product instincts with the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clean, well-scoped solutions
Collaborative and communicative, with the ability to work well across teams and functions
Experience with data-intensive systems—streaming pipelines, columnar stores (e.g., ClickHouse), or high-volume ingest (a strong plus)
Familiarity with LaunchDarkly, feature flagging, or observability tooling (a plus)
Experience with usage-based product surfaces, sandboxing/isolation technologies, or developer tooling (a plus)

Design, build, and ship backend features across the Vega platform (APIs, Go services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines)
Own features end-to-end: from prototype and API design through production rollout and iteration
Operate high-throughput data systems and keep them reliable, performant, and cost-efficient at scale
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers across Observability and Feature Management
Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews, contributing to sound trade-off decisions
Write well-tested, maintainable code and promote best practices for quality, observability, and reliability
Mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture
Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of production reliability for your features

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