Co-Op, DevOps Engineer

LiveRamp; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 44,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

People‑oriented culture

Fun team events

Flexible PTO

Remote options occasionally

Job summary

LiveRamp seeks a DevOps‑oriented engineer to help design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure for data platforms in a San Francisco‑area setting. You’ll work on observability tooling, CI/CD, and automation while joining cross‑functional teams for reliable, scalable services.

We value collaboration, practical results, and the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, production environment. Location is San Francisco, with remote eligibility not guaranteed.

Qualifications

• Interest or experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure‑focused work.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Math, or related field, or equivalent.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tooling for large environments.
• Experience with Linux, containers, and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy infra tools and clusters for LiveRamp's data platforms.
• Harden tooling for observability, incident detection, and automated remediation.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD tooling and Terraform scripts for deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC for self‑service environments.
• Collaborate with security, application, SRE and platform teams to meet standards.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and incident response for production systems.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud platforms

Python/Go/Bash

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

CloudFormation / IaC tools

Git

Job description

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform. We believe connected data has the power to change the world. Our platform powers insights and experiences centered around the needs of real people, and in ways that keep the Internet open for all. LiveRampers thrive on building together with curiosity and humility—and have a good bit of fun along the way. We’re always looking for smart, kind, and creative people to grow our team and impact.

Mission: LiveRamp makes it safe and easy for businesses to use data effectively.

Get ready for the best learning experience of your life. You will receive the same orientation training as our full‑time engineers, you will be matched with an individual mentor, and you will be committing production code by the end of your first week. In the course of your internship or Co‑op, you will be tasked with one or more mission‑critical projects and make meaningful contributions to LiveRamp’s success. Also, if our previous interns are any guides, you will have a ton of fun in the process! Internships are 12 weeks long. Should we want to extend you a full‑time offer after you graduate, we ask that you would be willing to consider this at the end of your internship. Co‑ops range between 12–24 weeks long. Should we want to extend you a full‑time offer after you graduate, we ask that you would be willing to consider this at the end of your Co‑op.

Co‑Op DevOps Engineer

You will:

• Design, build, deploy infra tools like kubernetes clusters, networks, databases etc.
• Implement and harden operational tooling for observability (metrics, logs, traces), incident detection, and automated remediation to reduce MTTR and improve system resilience.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD tooling and terraform scripts to improve the efficiency of deployments and infra automation.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable repeatable, self‑service environment creation for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with technical, application, and security stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure database infrastructure.
• Own and participate in on‑call responsibilities for Database operations team, triaging and resolving incidents, responding to tickets, and ensuring systems consistently meet defined SLAs for availability, performance, and data quality.
• Make sure DevOps best practices are followed and help internal stakeholder teams to adopt platform capabilities, automation patterns, and operational standards.
• Create runbooks, documentation for the tech stack and tools to operate and support effectively.
• Drive the technical roadmap for emerging data and infrastructure technologies by evaluating options, building proofs of concept (POCs), and authoring solution selection and design documents.

Your team will:

• Build and operate the database infrastructure, tooling, and platforms that power LiveRamp’s core data and onboarding services, with a focus on reliability, security, and scale.
• Provide paved roads for service development and deployment, so product teams can onboard quickly to standardized CI/CD, runtime, and observability stacks.
• Define and evolve best practices for operational readiness, production rollouts, configuration management, and runtime governance for database infrastructure.
• Maintain and continuously improve shared environments (staging, performance, and production) to ensure predictable releases and consistent behavior across tiers.
• Act as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and deployment issues, collaborating across teams to debug, root cause, and remediate systemic problems.
• Drive cross‑functional initiatives to modernize our platform (for example, container orchestration, secrets management, and cost optimization for cloud resources).
• Build infra for large‑scale database tools, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across LiveRamp using tools like Mysql, SingleStore, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Cloud resources.
• Provide secure, self‑service, and cost‑efficient database environments that enable product and data teams to experiment, ship, and scale data collaboration applications quickly.
• Partner closely with application, security, SRE, and platform teams to ensure database and other infra systems meet LiveRamp’s standards for privacy, compliance, reliability, and performance.

About you:

• Interest or experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure‑focused work and supporting production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Interest or experience with at least one major cloud provider (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) and the associated networking, security, and managed services.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling (for example, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and configuration management frameworks.
• Interest or experience in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (for example, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) for large‑scale, multi‑service environments.
• Background in Linux systems, containers, and orchestration platforms (for example, Kubernetes, ECS, or similar).
• Understanding of observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and using them to improve system reliability and performance.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language commonly used for automation (such as Python, Go, or Bash).
• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross‑functional engineering teams, with clear written and verbal communication and a focus on practical outcomes.
• Ability to participate in an on‑call rotation and lead incident response in high‑availability, production environments.
• Interest or experience in doing POCs by building infra for new tools.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including working with cross‑functional partners (security, application owners, vendors) and documenting designs and decisions clearly.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of SDLC process
• Understanding and experience with programming languages
• Experience with Linux Operating Systems.
• Experience with deployment and monitoring tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Experience using cloud-based platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or similar.
• Experience with a Version Control System (GIT, Subversion, or similar)

Benefits:

• People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• Fun: We host in‑person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.

Location: work in the heart of San Francisco and/or from home (remote‑eligible roles)

The approximate annual base compensation range is $44,000 to $65,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status.

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents.

LiveRamp is based in San Francisco, California with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.