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How LaunchDarkly hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
58 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%

LaunchDarkly scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 58 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

LaunchDarkly is a enterprise feature management and software delivery platform headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, the company provides a cloud-native platform centered on feature flagging, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) control, release automation, and product experimentation.

News

News Forbes 4 months ago
Building Software Got Easy-Controlling It Didn't
Runtime control isn't the thing that slows innovation down. It's the thing that makes sustained innovation possible.
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Press release globenewswire 5 months ago
LaunchDarkly Brings Runtime Control to the Agent Era
New solution gives engineering teams instantaneous control over AI agent behavior in production without redeployment...
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News Forbes 8 months ago
What AI Changes About Software Releases-And What It Doesn't
AI has made development faster, but it's also made release discipline more important.
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News TechRadar 8 months ago
Entering the post-speed era: when everyone can ship fast, control becomes the real advantage
Speed is no longer the impressive part, managing risk after deployment is
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Press release globenewswire 9 months ago
LaunchDarkly Expands Leadership Team in Response to Accelerated Growth and AI Tailwinds
Company nears $200M in ARR as demand for production-ready AI infrastructure stimulates global adoption...
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Inside LaunchDarkly's Mission to Make AI Safer for Software Delivery
In this episode of AI at Work , I sit down with Tom Totenberg , Head of Release Automation and Observability at LaunchDarkly , to explore what happens when...
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Press release globenewswire 1 year ago
LaunchDarkly Accelerates Journey to Self-Healing Software with Feature-Level Observability That Reduces Developer Friction and Accelerates Triage
LaunchDarkly unveiled key new AI capabilities and integrations that let developers ship software at even higher velocity while keeping risks at bay....
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Press release globenewswire 1 year ago
LaunchDarkly Co-Founder Edith Harbaugh Returns as Chief Executive Officer
LaunchDarkly today announced that the company co-founder and former CEO Edith Harbaugh has been named Chief Executive Officer....
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News Forbes 1 year ago
Why Product Analytics And Experimentation Must Converge
Product analytics and experimentation were never meant to operate in isolation.
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Press release globenewswire 1 year ago
LaunchDarkly Introduces New Release Observability, AI Configurations, and Analytics Capabilities to Help Developers Innovate Faster Without the Risk
LaunchDarkly announces multiple platform innovations at its annual Galaxy user conference....
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at LaunchDarkly over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
89
Postings analysed
61
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Go46%
Python41%
TypeScript28%
Rust23%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js13%
LangChain5%
DeepEval3%
FastAPI3%
Databases
CockroachDB10%
ClickHouse8%
Amazon Redshift8%
Snowflake8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS51%
GCP25%
Azure18%
Datadog16%
AI & ML
LLM11%
Claude7%
Gemini2%
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Full LaunchDarkly tech stack 89 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$264k
Typical range
$119k – $415k
Open positions
35
33 Jobs
Junior 6.1%
Senior 54.5%
Staff 30.3%
Architect 9.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $178k $168k – $188k
Senior 18 $279k $187k – $370k
Staff 10 $280k $235k – $371k
Architect 3 $295k $295k – $415k
Highest paying role Regional Sales Director, East $415k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at LaunchDarkly By role, level and city, against the market · 35 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
81/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
51
18 opened / 18 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
25% ▼
Sales
24% ▲
Finance
10% ▲
Leadership
8% ▲
Solutions
8% ▲
Product
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Bengaluru Oct 2026
Added Incident Management to stack Oct 2026
Added WebSockets to stack Oct 2026
New location: Ireland Sep 2026
New location: Australia Sep 2026
New location: India Sep 2026
Added C# to stack Sep 2026
Added .NET to stack Sep 2026
Added SRE to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added Linear to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
4
Countries
5
Busiest office
Oakland
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Oakland United States
HQ
US - Oakland, CA (HQ)
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Product
1999 Harrison St, Suite 1100, Oakland, 94612
seen since Jul 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
The Work Project
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Sales
1 Leadenhall St., EC3V 1PP London, UK
seen since May 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Singapore Singapore
Sales office
APAC - Singapore
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Boston United States
Sales office
US - Boston, MA
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $119k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
Hybrid - San Francisco Bay Area
4 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
seen since Jul 2026 careers board
New York United States
Regional office
US - Hybrid - New York
careers board
Amsterdam Netherlands
Regional office
EMEA - Netherlands
careers board
Barcelona Spain
Regional office
EMEA - Spain
careers board
Washington United States
Regional office
Remote - Washington, D.C.
careers board

Jobs

$192k – $264k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Datadog
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $169k – $293k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • 7+ years exp
Python
Go
TypeScript
FastAPI
Databases
CockroachDB
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
DeepEval
AWS Bedrock
OpenAI
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
AWS
Apply
≈ $80k – $150k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Ireland
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
dbt
Analytics
Looker
Apply
$241k – $331k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp
Platform Engineering
Apply
$215k – $295k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Apply
$171k – $235k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Apply
≈ $109k – $250k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Apply
$192k – $264k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp
CockroachDB
DevOps
Terraform
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
SRE
Platform Engineering
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
Apply
≈ $24k – $53k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • India
Python
JavaScript
Java
C#
Node JS
.NET
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Progressive Delivery
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$214k – $295k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Apply
$192k – $264k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp
Python
Go
ClickHouse
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
Datadog
AWS
Amazon S3
Amazon Kinesis
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$137k – $188k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp
Python
Go
TypeScript
OWASP Top 10
STRIDE
Threat Modeling
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Financials

Total raised
$255.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $200M $3B Details
Series C 2019 $44M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $8.7M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2015 $2.6M — Details