Senior Staff Engineer & Tech Lead - Remote & Flexible PTO

C0035 LiveRamp, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 256,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Working from home options

Parental leave

401K matching

Job summary

LiveRamp is seeking a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead and People Manager for the Identity Services team in San Francisco. You will drive architecture, lead engineers, and ensure low-latency identity resolution at scale, while balancing hands-on IC work with strategic leadership.

You will influence product direction, mentor engineers, and build a durable engineering culture across multiple teams, aligning technical plans with business goals and privacy standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of demonstrating strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to deliver on products as the technical lead.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Identity Services team, ensuring alignment with LiveRamp's overall engineering and product goals.
• Lead a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the day-to-day execution and delivery of high-volume, low-latency identity resolution capabilities, ensuring operational excellence and quality.
• Anticipate and resolve complex issues and conflicts that extend beyond the team's direct area of responsibility.
• Influence and guide other teams without direct authority, promoting cross-functional collaboration to achieve shared goals.
• Hold other teams accountable for quality and timely delivery when dependencies exist.
• Actively engage in long-term (12-month) Product planning and priority setting (StackRank), helping to define the strategic roadmap for Identity Services.
• Be the primary technical liaison for Product Management, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment of product initiatives.
• Help identify, develop, and hire strategic skills to enhance the overall capabilities of the LiveRamp engineering organization.
• Maintain a significant individual contributor (IC) component (approximately 50% of time), focusing on complex technical challenges, architecture, and code quality reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Java / JVM

Architecture design

API design

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Java

Job description

LiveRamp is seeking a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead and People Manager for the Identity Services team in San Francisco. You will drive architecture, lead engineers, and ensure low-latency identity resolution at scale, while balancing hands-on IC work with strategic leadership.

You will influence product direction, mentor engineers, and build a durable engineering culture across multiple teams, aligning technical plans with business goals and privacy standards.