Backend Software Engineer (SDK)

• As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis. You’ll work with multiple technologies across our 35+ SDKs while enabling customers of all kinds to feature flag their code
• When working on our SDKs, you’d be contributing to much more than thin client wrappers. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents with strong emphases on performance, concurrency, and resiliency — all while following idiomatic practices for their tech stack
• LaunchDarkly serves trillions of feature flags daily to customers all around the globe, and every flag is handled by our SDKs. This team has a major impact not only on our company, but on our customers (and their customers). We are growing fast and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story
• Contribute to development for SDKs in supported platforms
• Implement new features and improvements to meet customer performance and resiliency requirements
• Keep up to date with the latest development practices
• Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features
• Actively maintain our open-source repositories
• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices
• Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions
• You will work collaboratively with a team of highly experienced engineers who are amazing at the craft of engineering and building SDKs
• Your contributions will be publicly visible as the SDK team develops LaunchDarkly’s open-source SDKs in public
• LaunchDarkly uses our own SDKs. You will have opportunities working with the other teams within LaunchDarkly
• In this role, you can learn about many programming languages and frameworks
• You will have opportunities to strongly influence roadmap and prioritization

Benefits

• Full Vision
• Full Dental
• Full Medical
• Flexible Schedule
• Healthy Lunches & Snacks
• Conference & Meetup Access
• Education Stipend
• Personalized Work Station
• Close to Public Transportation
• Bike Parking
• Team Activities
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance

• Experience contributing to open-source software
• Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability
• Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary
• Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks
• 5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java
• Mobile development
• Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly
• AI SDKs
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers
• Observability SDKs
• Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment
• Experience with the following is a plus:
• C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua