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Salary: USD 182,600 - 295,350 / annual
LaunchDarkly is hiring Staff Engineers to provide technical leadership across the organization. The company builds a platform that helps engineering teams ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control through feature flags, experimentation, observability, and AI-powered capabilities.
As a Staff Engineer, you will be an individual contributor who leads through expertise, communication, and influence rather than direct people management. You will set technical direction for complex, high-impact systems and cross-team initiatives spanning platform infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, data systems, observability, experimentation, feature management, or AI/agent capabilities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting technical direction for complex, high-impact systems, products, or cross-team initiatives
- Leading architecture and design work that improves scalability, performance, reliability, security, operability, and developer experience
- Clarifying ambiguous problems and identifying highest-leverage opportunities to help teams make well-informed decisions
- Partnering with Product, Design, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders to connect technical investments to customer and business outcomes
- Influencing teams outside your immediate area through strong technical proposals, inclusive decision-making, and clear communication
- Improving engineering effectiveness through reusable patterns, documentation, mentoring, and process improvements
- Contributing directly to critical projects when hands-on technical work creates the most leverage
- Representing customer needs and production realities in technical and product discussions
- Developing other engineers through mentorship, feedback, and growth opportunities
LaunchDarkly's SDKs perform trillions of feature flag evaluations daily, giving this work direct connection to reliability and customer experience of software worldwide. The role offers unusually broad technical challenges and room to shape the next generation of software delivery.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, streaming protocols (e.g., Server-Sent Events, WebSockets), and stateful connection management at scale
- Expertise in Go, Java, Rust, or similar systems programming languages (LaunchDarkly uses Go and some Rust)
- Significant experience delivering and operating production software with meaningful scale, complexity, or reliability requirements
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team or organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority
- Experience making architecture and design decisions for complex systems and communicating tradeoffs clearly
- Track record of turning ambiguous, high-impact problems into aligned plans and shipped outcomes
- Strong understanding of software quality, observability, operational health, security, and sustainable delivery practices
- Ability to balance long-term technical direction with pragmatic, incremental execution
- Collaborative leadership style grounded in curiosity, inclusion, clear communication, and respect for different perspectives
