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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery - **Company:** Greenhouse Software, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $171,200.0 - $235,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Network Service, Software Engineering, Concurrency, Caching, Backend - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7767461003 ## About the Role * You are kind, coachable, and excited to learn from senior engineers. * You already use AI regularly in your engineering work and can explain how, when, and why * You enjoy understanding how real systems behave in production, not just how they are supposed to work on paper. * You are curious about scale, failure, caching, delivery, and operability. * You are energized by debugging, tradeoffs, and steadily improving systems over time. * You bring real backend or infrastructure ownership, not just feature implementation. * You care about writing software that is maintainable, observable, and dependable., * 5+ years of backend software engineering experience. * Experience building or operating production backend systems. * Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Rust, or a similar backend language; today the team primarily uses Go, with some Rust in the broader environment. * Clear, existing AI usage in engineering work. * Ability to use AI without surrendering technical judgment. * Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals such as caching, concurrency, failure modes, and reliability. * Experience debugging production issues and using observability to understand system behavior. * Ability to reason clearly about code, architecture, and system behavior. * Strong learning orientation and comfort working with senior engineers. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work well across engineering teams. * Willingness to participate in on-call and production support. ## Description In this role, you'll build and improve backend services that sit directly on LaunchDarkly's critical delivery path, partner closely with SDK, Platform, SRE, and Security, and work on real-time production systems at scale. This role is a strong fit for an engineer who is excited by distributed systems, weird production behavior, and learning quickly on a senior team, and who already brings real production instincts, strong debugging judgment, and clear AI fluency in their engineering work., * Build, improve, and operate backend services that power LaunchDarkly's Flag Delivery systems. * Contribute to systems that support streaming and polling delivery models for LaunchDarkly SDKs. * Debug production issues, improve service reliability, and help the team maintain strong standards around latency, availability, observability, and operability. * Work with technologies and patterns common to modern distributed backend systems, including caching layers, network services, concurrency, failure handling, and cloud infrastructure. * Collaborate closely with partner teams including SDK, Platform, SRE, Security, and Enterprise to deliver improvements across the broader platform. * Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership of the systems you help build. * Learn the existing architecture deeply and make pragmatic improvements that increase system clarity, performance, and maintainability. * Use AI as part of your engineering workflow with sound judgment, including knowing when to use it, how to direct it effectively, and how to verify or reject its output. * Reason clearly about code, architecture, and whole-system behavior even when AI is in the loop., We invite applicants to share their demographic background. 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