Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Real-Time Systems

About the role

The Pixel Serving team at LiveRamp is part of the Identity Engineering teams. We are LiveRamp’s gateway for all real-time data workflows, ranging from single-digit milliseconds to under 150ms, depending on the business use case. We strive to keep the internet open and privacy safe.

Responsibilities

• Own several distributed real-time APIs and applications, written in Go, that service external partners
• Help develop robust cross-team data flows using modern streaming platforms like Redpanda
• Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of core production systems

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience deploying high-performance production code
• Proven ability to thrive in environments ranging from building and launching MVPs quickly, to scaling existing products to high volumes, and managing complex, high-reliability distributed systems (2+ years of relevant experience in this space is required)
• Strong track record of designing and building maintainable, large-scale systems
• Comfortable navigating complex, unfamiliar and unclear problem spaces and platforms
• Enjoy translating business challenges into effective technical solutions
• Thrives on mentoring and promoting engineering best practices within a team environment

Qualifications

• Experience working on 0-to-1 (new product launch) initiatives
• Hands-on experience scaling 1-to-N (large-scale growth) distributed systems
• Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for high-volume services and APIs
• Familiarity with the AdTech ecosystem

Skills

• Primary Languages: Golang (main), Java and Python (partially)
• Core Technologies: Kubernetes, Redpanda, SingleStore, Terraform
• Cloud Ecosystem: Deep usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigTable, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, DataProc and Data Transfer solutions

Benefits

People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead. Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)