Staff Engineer, Distributed Systems

As a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s Flag Delivery Network (FDN) team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping one of the most high-performance, globally distributed systems powering modern software delivery. The FDN is responsible for delivering real-time feature flag updates to tens of millions of connected SDKs across web, mobile, and server environments—at a scale of hundreds of thousands to millions of updates per second. This infrastructure is a mission-critical part of our platform, and your work will directly impact the performance, reliability, and safety of software rollouts for some of the world’s most innovative engineering teams.

You’ll architect and evolve the systems behind our global edge delivery infrastructure, collaborate with SDK and platform teams, and lead initiatives that push the boundaries of what’s possible in edge computing and real-time data propagation. You’ll be expected to lead by example—driving operational excellence, mentoring teammates, and owning systems throughout their lifecycle, including being part of the on-call rotation.