Sr. Software Development Engineer, Authentication and Access

C0035 LiveRamp, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Work from home options

401K matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

LiveRamp, a data collaboration platform, seeks a backend engineer to join the Authentication and Access team in San Francisco. You will build high‑performance services powering authentication and authorization across LiveRamp, shaping security and reliability for customers.

You will lead design reviews, implement robust Go services, and collaborate with UX/Product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions. Go, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in software development.
• Significant experience with backend web services.
• Experience leading full development lifecycles and working with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to highly available, low-latency authentication/authorization systems.
• Lead cross-team engineering projects through the full software lifecycle.
• Architect solutions to integrate authN/authZ across LiveRamp’s stack.
• Collaborate with UX and Product teams to deliver secure customer experiences.

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

C++

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

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.

LiveRamp’s Authentication and Access (AAA) team builds critical, high‑performance services and tools to solve authentication and authorization problems for LiveRamp's engineering teams and our customers. As a member of the AAA team, you will have a massive impact on the entire engineering organization. You will also play a direct role in shaping LiveRamp’s customer experience, because AAA develops systems which customers interact with directly. You will be joining a vertically‑integrated team who embraces a DevOps mindset, with complete ownership over our entire tech stack. Our primary backend programming language is Go and the majority of our portfolio consists of modern, greenfield projects which we've been creating over the last 1–5 years.

You will:

• Be a key contributor to critical, highly‑available, low‑latency systems which power authentication and authorization for all of LiveRamp
• Lead cross‑team engineering projects through the entire software development lifecycle
• Brainstorm and prototype complex software design problems
• Perform thorough code reviews and design reviews for other engineers on the team
• Architect solutions for integrating our authN/authZ systems throughout LiveRamp’s stack
• Figure out ways to replace legacy authorization systems with our modern solutions
• Partner with our User Experience team to deliver best‑in‑class experiences to our customers
• Collaborate with the entire engineering organization to realize our security vision
• Craft high‑quality technical documentation
• Participate in our on‑call rotation to occasionally triage incidents or provide emergency support when rarely necessary

About you:

• 4+ years experience in software development
• Passionate about the security and quality of the software you write
• Significant experience in designing, building, and maintaining backend web services
• Significant experience leading the entire development lifecycle of software products, including planning, design, coding, deployment, rollout, monitoring, and maintenance of services supporting these products
• Comfortable working with a distributed, global team
• Experience working with UX and Product teams
• Significant experience with at least one system programming language (Go, Rust, Java, C++ …)

Preferred Skills (bonus points):

• Experience developing highly‑available low‑latency software
• Experience working on systems where security is critical
• Experience with Go
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience as a team’s technical leader

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

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do
• We host in‑person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave
• Comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life and disability, employee assistance program, voluntary benefits, and perks programs for a healthy lifestyle, career growth, and more)
• 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—to help you plan ahead
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan—15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
• LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives
• More about LiveRamp’s mission to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people

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. We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates. California residents: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process. To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Our growth is creating great opportunities!