Backend Engineer, Decision Science

Please note, before progressing to our application, this position is remote Western US (Pacific Timezone).

We are looking for exceptional Software Engineers to make a profound impact on how data products will be integrated into companies' software in the future. We are integrating data into everything LaunchDarkly offers on top of our unrivaled feature management platform.

As a Data Products - Software Engineer, you will help us architect and write fast, reliable, and scalable data processing tools to process data from our thousands of customers and their hundreds of millions of users around the world. We're looking for someone who knows what it takes to deliver value to customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.

The primary technologies we use daily include Golang, Scala, Kinesis, and Flink. If working as a part of such a poly-functional team to bring to change how experimentation is done forever appeals to you then come join the Experimentation team at LaunchDarkly.

• Build and expand our data platform and services

• Help us identify the best technologies for our evolving data needs

• Collaborate with product team to spec and deliver user-facing features

• Monitor and improve data pipeline performance

• Actively participate in code reviews

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• Proven experience and fluency in a JVM or functional language

• Experience building data platforms (e.g. using Flink, Kafka, DataFlow, Hadoop, Spark)

• Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy

• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability

• You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems

• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.

Learn more about the interview process & what it’s like to work with LaunchDarkly's Product Delivery team!

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