LaunchDarkly · 1 month ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $257K/yr
5+ years expLaunchDarkly is a company that empowers teams to deliver and control software effectively. As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Data Platform, you will build and enhance batch and stream processing pipelines to manage and deliver data efficiently, supporting various internal and external products.
Developer ToolsDevOpsSoftwareTest and Measurement
Responsibilities
Build and expand our data pipelines and data products supporting Experimentation, Release observability, Metrics, Product Analytics and Flag Insights product lines, as well as internal Business Intelligence
Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers and UX designers to deliver user-facing features
Monitor and improve database and pipeline performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Qualification
Required
5+ Years of backend software engineering experience
Minimum of 1 year experience building product focused Data Pipelines or Data Warehouse
Demonstrable experience with data pipelines, including some of Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink and Athena
Experience with event or analytical data sets in databases including some of Clickhouse, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Timestream and Snowflake
Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Preferred
Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or equivalent
Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or equivalent
Benefits
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Mental health benefits
Company
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$330.3MKey Investors
Lead Edge CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersRedpoint
2021-08-10Series D· $200M
2020-01-16Series Unknown· $54M
2019-03-13Series C· $44M
Leadership Team
Edith Harbaugh
Chief Executive Officer
John Kodumal
CTO and Cofounder
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