Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time Identity & APIs

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 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.