Reliability Engineer

Company: LaunchDarkly
Location: Oakland
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

About the Job:
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 monitoring our core systems, developing new capabilities for our internal engineering teams, as well as responding to and mitigating incidents.
The core technologies we use daily include Golang, CockroachDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, Kafka, and Terraform.
Responsibilities:

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  Develop tools and automation to streamline the deployment and operation of our infrastructure, and to detect and diagnose problems quickly and efficiently.
  
  
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  Enable our engineers to deliver their services with higher autonomy, reliability, performance, and speed through offerings written in Go and Terraform.
  
  
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  Manage and monitor production systems, including responding to alerts and incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions.
  
  
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  Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans, and conduct regular testing and exercises.
  
  
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  Analyze performance of SQL queries and suggest improvements and build guardrails for teams.
  
  
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  Monitor and improve both front-end and back-end performance.
  
  
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  Mentor and train other engineers on site reliability engineering principles, tools, and processes.
  
  
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  Actively participate in code review
  
  
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    Comfort with large scale, highly available, distributed systems
    
    
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    Comfort with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)
    
    
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    Knowledge of RESTful API design
    
    
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    Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
    
    
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    Experience with observability tooling (Datadog/Honeycomb/etc)
    
    
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    Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
    
    
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    You write codethat can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
    
    
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    You have a high bar for quality of code and quality of user experience
    
    
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    Discipline to be a self directed learner
    
    
    
    Pay:
    Target pay range for a Level 4 in San Francisco/Bay Area: $165,000 - $195,000*
    *Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
    LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, degree level, and location.
    
    About LaunchDarkly:
    LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves trillions of feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer robust products and services. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. Our headquarters are in Oakland.
    At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
    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 .
    LaunchDarkly is also committed to giving back to our community and is a part of Pledge 1%, an organization that helps companies make this a priority. Through this initiative and its charitable arm, the LaunchDarkly Foundation, the company is committed to such causes as supporting education for the underserved, homelessness relief and moving towards having a net-zero carbon footprint. You can find more about the LaunchDarkly Foundation and the organizations we serve at .
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