Full Stack Engineer, Observability

About the role

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to enhance our Observability product by addressing key enterprise needs. This role is central to our post-acquisition growth, involving large-scale system migrations and the development of new enterprise-grade features.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Develop full-stack features that meet enterprise requirements for Observability.
• Take ownership of integrations and infrastructure capabilities, from API design and backend services to user interface elements.
• Work with product managers, designers, solutions engineers, and customers to define and deliver solutions for enterprise challenges.
• Contribute to architectural and design discussions, making informed decisions about scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Write well-tested code and uphold high engineering standards.
• Engage with internal teams and sometimes external customers to validate solutions and gather feedback.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability of your features in production.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-ready full-stack features.
• Proficiency in both frontend and backend development, specifically with TypeScript/React for the frontend and Go (or a comparable language) for the backend.
• Experience building scalable integrations, data pipelines, or APIs that connect different systems.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi, or experience developing APIs compatible with IaC practices.
• Understanding of enterprise software needs, including compliance, auditability, role-based access control, and GitOps workflows.
• Strong communication abilities, enabling effective collaboration across different functions and comfortable interaction with technical customers and solutions engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with LaunchDarkly's feature flagging or Observability products.

Skills & tools

• TypeScript
• React
• Go
• Terraform
• Pulumi
• Datadog
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry

Practical notes

Pay ranges based on US geographic zones:

Zone 1 (SF/Bay Area, NYC Metro, Boston, Seattle): $171,200 - $235,400

Zone 2 (Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago): $154,100 - $211,860

Zone 3 (All other US locations): $145,500 - $200,090

Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits.

LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @launchdarkly.com email addresses or LinkedIn Verified Recruiter accounts. Be cautious of other domains. Legitimate recruiters will not ask for money, fees, or banking information before an offer. Offers are only made after a formal interview process.