# Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation at LaunchDarkly

- Company: LaunchDarkly
- What the company does: LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control. Backed by Bessemer, Insight and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://launchdarkly.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $192K to $264K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7920039003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/launchdarkly-senior-backend-engineer-experimentation/

## About the role

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Experimentation team. The Experimentation team is building one of the company’s most strategic product areas: a platform that helps leading engineering organizations move beyond intuition and make product decisions with real statistical confidence.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating backend services in production
- Fluency using AI tools in software engineering workflows, including the judgment to direct, evaluate, and validate AI-generated output
- Experience designing and delivering customer-facing systems that are scalable, reliable, observable, and maintainable
- Strong programming experience in Go or a comparable backend language such as Python, Rust, or C++. Our team is using Go
- 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

Tags: Measure Engineering