Co-Op, DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Get ready for the best learning experience of your life. You will receive the same orientation training as our full-time engineers, be matched with an individual mentor, and commit production code by the end of your first week. In the course of your internship or Co-op, you will be tasked with one or more mission-critical projects and make meaningful contributions to LiveRamp's success. Internships are 12 weeks long, while Co-ops range between 12-24 weeks long. Should we want to extend you a full-time offer after you graduate, we ask that you would be willing to consider this at the end of your internship or Co-op.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy infrastructure tools like Kubernetes clusters, networks, and databases.
• Implement and harden operational tooling for observability (metrics, logs, traces), incident detection, and automated remediation to reduce MTTR and improve system resilience.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD tooling and Terraform scripts to improve the efficiency of deployments and infrastructure automation.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable repeatable, self-service environment creation for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with technical, application, and security stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure database infrastructure.
• Own and participate in on-call responsibilities for the Database operations team, triaging and resolving incidents, responding to tickets, and ensuring systems consistently meet defined SLAs for availability, performance, and data quality.
• Ensure DevOps best practices are followed and help internal stakeholder teams adopt platform capabilities, automation patterns, and operational standards.
• Create runbooks and documentation for the tech stack and tools to operate and support effectively.
• Drive the technical roadmap for emerging data and infrastructure technologies by evaluating options, building proofs of concept (POCs), and authoring solution selection and design documents.

Your Team Will

• Build and operate the database infrastructure, tooling, and platforms that power LiveRamp’s core data and onboarding services, with a focus on reliability, security, and scale.
• Provide paved roads for service development and deployment, so product teams can onboard quickly to standardized CI/CD, runtime, and observability stacks.
• Define and evolve best practices for operational readiness, production rollouts, configuration management, and runtime governance for database infrastructure.
• Maintain and continuously improve shared environments (staging, performance, and production) to ensure predictable releases and consistent behavior across tiers.
• Act as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and deployment issues, collaborating across teams to debug, root cause, and remediate systemic problems.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to modernize our platform (e.g., container orchestration, secrets management, and cost optimization for cloud resources).
• Build infrastructure for large-scale database tools, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across LiveRamp using tools like MySQL, SingleStore, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and cloud resources.
• Provide secure, self-service, and cost-efficient database environments that enable product and data teams to experiment, ship, and scale data collaboration applications quickly.
• Partner closely with application, security, SRE, and platform teams to ensure database and other infrastructure systems meet LiveRamp’s standards for privacy, compliance, reliability, and performance.

Requirements

• Interest or experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure-focused work and supporting production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Interest or experience with at least one major cloud provider (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) and the associated networking, security, and managed services.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and configuration management frameworks.
• Interest or experience in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) for large-scale, multi-service environments.
• Background in Linux systems, containers, and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS, or similar).
• Understanding of observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and using them to improve system reliability and performance.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language commonly used for automation (such as Python, Go, or Bash).
• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams, with clear written and verbal communication and a focus on practical outcomes.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response in high-availability, production environments.
• Interest or experience in doing POCs by building infrastructure for new tools.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including working with cross-functional partners (security, application owners, vendors) and documenting designs and decisions clearly.

Preferred Skills

• Understanding of SDLC process.
• Experience with programming languages.
• Experience with Linux Operating Systems.
• Experience with deployment and monitoring tools.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Experience using cloud-based platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar.
• Experience with a Version Control System (Git, Subversion, or similar).

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• 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.
• Work in the heart of San Francisco and/or from home (remote-eligible roles).

Pay

The approximate annual base compensation range is $44,000 to $65,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and geography, as well as internal equity among the team.