Senior Engineering Manager, Data Activation & Integrations

LiveRamp; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveRamp seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead 20–25 engineers across three teams—Activation Backend, Integration Core, and Integration Feature—driving massive-scale data pipelines and partner integrations. You will shape reliability, speed, and cost while guiding migration to Temporal and self-service capabilities.

You will partner with Product, Quality Eng, Support, and platform teams to deliver robust data collaborations, with leadership presence across US and India and strong focus on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Led teams of 15+ engineers or more, including managers or tech leads.

Responsibilities

• Lead about 20 to 25 engineers across three teams: Activation Backend, Integration Core, and Integration Feature.
• Own reliability, speed, and cost of data pipelines delivering audience data daily.
• Own health and roadmap of partner integrations (Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, DSPs, cloud platforms).
• Lead incident response for activation and integrations, driving down P0/P1 volume.
• Set technical direction: migrate to Temporal, expand self-service, and define reference architecture.
• Reduce delivery turnaround time and eliminate duplicate data to partners as volumes grow.
• Bring AI to Activation via MCP interfaces and agent-driven workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, Quality Engineering, Support, and platform teams on priorities and on-call processes.
• Represent Activation engineering to executives and destination partners' engineering teams.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Temporal

Cadence

AI in production

APIs

Privacy compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Temporal

Cadence

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

LiveRamp seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead 20–25 engineers across three teams—Activation Backend, Integration Core, and Integration Feature—driving massive-scale data pipelines and partner integrations. You will shape reliability, speed, and cost while guiding migration to Temporal and self-service capabilities.

You will partner with Product, Quality Eng, Support, and platform teams to deliver robust data collaborations, with leadership presence across US and India and strong focus on