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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
Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers
Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly
5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java
Experience with the following is a plus:
C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua
AI SDKs
Observability SDKs
Mobile development
Strong computer science fundamentals
Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment
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
Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability
Experience contributing to open-source software
This is a remote role, with opportunities to visit the office in Bay Area California
The SDK team is spread between Eastern and Pacific time zones
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
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 3:
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at [email protected].
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LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that serves over 10 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can be easily turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). Our vision is to eliminate risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. As companies transition to a world built on software, there is an increasing requirement to move quickly, balanced with the desire to maintain control. LaunchDarkly is the feature management platform to control the entire feature lifecycle from Concept → Launch → Launch Value. LaDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer fast products and robust services. Our team culture is collaborative, and supportive.
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