Reliability Engineer

Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control the best software. We serve hundreds of billions of feature flags daily, to help teams ship better software, faster and eliminate risk for companies big and small.

We're based in Downtown Oakland and growing quickly. You'll help us tackle some of the most challenging engineering problems around, like delivering feature flags to hundreds of millions of users all over the world in milliseconds.

You'll participate in new feature development end-to-end, contributing to our back-end or front-end code. We're looking for someone who thrives on putting new features in front of customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.​

The core technologies we use daily include Golang, React, Redux, CockroachDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, Kafka, and Terraform.

• Develop tools and automation to streamline the deployment and operation of our infrastructure, and to detect and diagnose problems quickly and efficiently.

• Enable our engineers to deliver their services with higher autonomy, reliability, performance, and speed through offerings written in Go and Terraform.

• Manage and monitor production systems, including responding to alerts and incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions.

• Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans, and conduct regular testing and exercises.

• Analyze performance of SQL queries and suggest improvements and build guardrails for teams.

• Monitor and improve both front-end and back-end performance.

• Mentor and train other engineers on site reliability engineering principles, tools, and processes.

• Actively participate in code review

• Comfort with large scale, highly available, distributed systems

• Comfort with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)

• Knowledge of RESTful API design

• Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog/Honeycomb/etc)

• Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy

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

• You have a high bar for quality of code and quality of user experience

• Discipline to be a self directed learner

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.

We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly.

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