[Hiring] Infrastructure Engineer @LaunchDarkly

Role Description

As an Infrastructure Engineer on the IDE team, you'll help us build, automate, and improve the systems that keep LaunchDarkly running at scale.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows
• Build and improve internal tools and platforms that make other engineers more productive
• Manage and evolve our AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Participate in on-call rotations and turn incident patterns into permanent fixes
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and reduce friction
• Identify repetitive operational work and replace it with software

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Familiarity with AWS (you've used it; you don't need to have memorized every service)
• You write code to solve problems — not just configuration, but actual software when the situation calls for it
• You're curious about how things work and willing to learn new tools quickly
• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
• You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• You value code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices

Requirements

• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools (nice to have)
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) (nice to have)
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes (nice to have)
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog (nice to have)

Pay

• Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670
• Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270
• Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary

Company Description

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong.

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability