Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Real-Time Systems

LiveRamp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Work from home options

Paid parental leave

401K matching up to 6%

Job summary

LiveRamp is a data collaboration platform powering a privacy-centric identity stack. The Pixel Serving team builds real-time data workflows with Go APIs, streaming data using Redpanda, and scalable services for external partners.

The team emphasizes end-to-end ownership, reliability, and performance, with a focus on MVPs, high-volume growth, and mentoring engineers in best practices. SF Bay Area role with strong privacy and compliance culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience deploying high-performance production code.
• 2+ years of relevant experience building and launching MVPs quickly and scaling to high volumes.
• Strong track record of designing and building maintainable, large-scale systems.
• Comfort navigating complex, unclear problem spaces and platforms.
• Enjoy translating business challenges into effective technical solutions.
• Thrive on mentoring and promoting engineering best practices within a team.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and scaling the next-generation, AI-forward advertising technology stack.
• Own several distributed real time APIs and applications, written in Go, that service external partners.
• Develop robust cross-team data flows using modern streaming platforms like Redpanda.
• Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of core production systems.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Kubernetes

Redpanda

SingleStore

Terraform

GCP

Job description

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world's most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases - within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

We on the Pixel Serving team are part of the Identity Engineering teams at LiveRamp. We are LiveRamp's gateway for all real-time data workflows ranging from single digit milliseconds to under 150 ms depending on the business use case. We strive to keep the internet open and privacy safe.

Your Team And Tech Stack

• Our team builds and owns the entire stack, giving us full visibility into the business problems we solve. We follow Scrum methodology.
• Primary Languages: Golang (main), Java and Python (partially).
• Core Technologies: Kubernetes, Redpanda, SingleStore, Terraform.
• Cloud Ecosystem: Deep usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigTable, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, DataProc and Data Transfer solutions.

You Will

• Contribute to building and scaling the next-generation, AI-forward advertising technology stack.
• Own several distributed real time APIs and applications, written in Go, that service external partners.
• Develop robust cross-team data flows using modern streaming platforms like Redpanda.
• Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of core production systems.

About You

• 5+ years of professional experience deploying high-performance production code.
• 2+ years of relevant experience building and launching Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) quickly, to scaling existing products to high volumes, and managing complex, high-reliability distributed systems.
• Strong track record of designing and building maintainable, large-scale systems.
• You are comfortable navigating complex, unfamiliar and unclear problem spaces and platforms.
• You enjoy translating business challenges into effective technical solutions.
• You thrive on mentoring and promoting engineering best practices within a team environment.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on 0-to-1 (new product launch) initiatives.
• Hands-on Experience scaling 1-to-1 (large-scale growth) distributed systems.
• Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for high-volume services and APIs.
• Familiarity with the AdTech ecosystem.

The approximate annual base compensation range is $130,000 to $196,500. 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.

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.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Savings: Our 401K matching plan -1:1 match up to 6% of salary - helps you plan ahead.

More About Us

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. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.

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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