Staff Engineer (Multiple Positions)
LaunchDarkly · Remote - US
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**Staff Engineer (Multiple Positions)** **About LaunchDarkly Engineering** LaunchDarkly helps engineering organizations ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control. Our platform enables gradual releases, targeted experiences for the right audiences, experimentation, production observability, and fast response when risk appears. Our engineers build the systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences that make this possible—spanning high-scale distributed systems, reliable data/event pipelines, enterprise workflows, and AI-powered capabilities. **About the role** Staff scope at LaunchDarkly is defined by impact rather than title alone. The domain may include platform infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, data systems, observability, experimentation, feature management, or AI/agent capabilities. As a **Staff Engineer**, you’ll provide technical leadership beyond a single team—helping define direction for important systems or product areas, guiding complex initiatives, and creating leverage by enabling other engineers to make better decisions and deliver with confidence. This is an **individual contributor** role. You’ll lead through expertise, communication, and influence rather than direct people management. **What you’ll do** - Set technical direction for complex, high-impact systems, products, or cross-team initiatives - Lead architecture/design to improve scalability, performance, reliability, security, operability, and developer experience - Clarify ambiguous problems and identify the highest-leverage opportunities - Partner with Product, Design, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders to connect technical investments to customer/business outcomes - Influence teams outside your immediate area through strong technical proposals and clear communication - Improve engineering effectiveness via reusable patterns, paved paths, documentation, mentoring, and process improvements - Contribute hands-on to critical projects when it creates the most leverage - Represent customer needs and production realities in technical/product discussions - Develop other engineers through mentorship, feedback, and opportunities to grow scope **Qualifications** - Typically **10+ years** of relevant industry experience - Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, streaming protocols (e.g., SSE, WebSockets), and stateful connection management at scale - Expertise in **Go, Java, Rust** (LaunchDarkly uses Go and some Rust) - Experience delivering and operating production software with meaningful scale/complexity/reliability requirements - Demonstrated technical leadership across team/organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority - Experience making architecture/design decisions for complex systems and communicating tradeoffs - Track record turning ambiguous, high-impact problems into aligned plans and shipped outcomes - Strong understanding of software quality, observability, operational health, security, and sustainable delivery - Ability to balance long-term technical direction with pragmatic, incremental execution - Collaborative leadership style grounded in curiosity, inclusion, clear communication, and respect for different perspectives **Pay** Target pay ranges for **Level 5** (by Geographic Zone): - **Zone 1** (San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metro, Boston, Seattle): **$214,800 – $295,350** - **Zone 2** (Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicag
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