Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the IDE team, owning the infrastructure layer (networking, compute, CI/CD, databases, observability) and building automation and self-service tooling for LaunchDarkly's global AWS platform.

What you'll do

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows
• Build and improve internal tools and platforms that make other engineers more productive
• Manage and evolve 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

What you'll need

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

Nice to have

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

Details

• Participation in an on-call rotation (all engineers participate)
• Remote - US
• Pay zones: Zone 1 (San Francisco/Bay Area, 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