# Staff Backend Engineer, Guardian 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: $215K to $295K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7693834003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/launchdarkly-staff-backend-engineer-guardian/

## About the role

LaunchDarkly is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of software delivery at LaunchDarkly at the intersection of Releases and Observability on the Guardian team. In a world where agents are delivering code faster and more reliably, releasing safely is no longer optional infrastructure; it’s a competitive advantage. The Guardian team is focused on making every release safer, faster, and more reliable.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality full-stack features
- Experience with observability systems, statistical analysis pipelines, and event-based metrics infrastructure
- Strong architectural understanding of data platforms, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience leading 0-to-1 product development, taking ambiguous problem spaces from exploration through proof of concept to validated direction
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with minimal direction, comfortable defining what to build, not just how to build it
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills

Tags: Measure Engineering