Software Development Engineer

LiveRamp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveRamp in San Francisco is seeking a software engineer to design, build, and maintain backend systems, data pipelines, and ML infrastructure that power our data collaboration platforms.

The role emphasizes Python, SQL, Airflow, and cloud-native tooling with BigQuery and GCS. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, contribute to observability, and help scale production systems across time zones.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering building backend systems or ML infra.
• Proficient in Python and SQL, with experience in data pipelines and production systems.
• Experience with Airflow and cloud-native data tooling (BigQuery, GCS) required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ML and data workflows in production.
• Develop backend services and shared libraries for the platform.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and reliability of production pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response as needed.

Skills

Python

SQL

Backend development

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Airflow

BigQuery

GCS

Job description

LiveRamp is shaping the future of responsible data collaboration between the world’s leading brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators. As consumers embrace new AI-driven experiences, the LiveRamp data collaboration network exponentially expands the breadth and accuracy of the data on which marketing AI capabilities operate, powering deeper customer insight and measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.

You will:

• Design, build, and maintain ML and data workflows that use BigQuery, GCS, and related cloud services to support internal products and downstream consumers.
• Develop backend services, pipeline components, and shared libraries used by our agentic platform.
• Build and strengthen observability for production workflows, including monitoring, alerting, retry behavior, timeout handling, and operational diagnostics.
• Work closely with engineers and cross-functional partners to turn product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Participate in team operations, incident response, and on-call or support rotations as needed for shared production systems.

Your Team will:

• Own and evolve the ML and data workflows behind our Identity resolution product, including pipeline reliability, data quality, deployment confidence, and operational visibility.
• Support shared agentic platform capabilities used by multiple teams, with clear ownership of common services and escalation paths for infrastructure dependencies.
• Partner globally across time zones with teams in engineering, infrastructure, and product to deliver high-impact systems from India.

About you:

• You have 3+ years professional software engineering experience building backend systems, data pipelines, or ML infrastructure in production environments.
• You are strong in at least one programming language commonly used for backend or data systems such as Python.
• You have experience working with SQL and data processing systems, and you are comfortable developing against warehouse-scale datasets.
• You have experience with Airflow or similar orchestration framework.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud-native data tooling, especially BigQuery, GCS, or similar managed storage and compute services.
• You understand how to build reliable systems with monitoring, alerting, retries, timeouts, validation checks, and safe failure handling.
• You can debug production issues methodically and improve systems based on operational signals and recurring failure modes.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate well across teams, and take ownership of outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with CI/CD, deployment gates, and regression test automation for data or ML systems.
• Familiarity with ML platform patterns, feature or model-adjacent workflows, and internal platform libraries.
• Experience operating systems that span multiple external dependencies and shared infrastructure layers.
• Exposure to agentic platform or AI-adjacent infrastructure is a plus.

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