Staff Software Engineer - Clean Room

About the role

You Will Design, build, and operate scalable software systems that power privacy-conscious data collaboration products.
Lead the technical design and delivery of backend services, platform components, and distributed systems used by internal and external customers.
Translate ambiguous product, platform, and customer needs into clear technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
Drive architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering standards to improve reliability, maintainability, observability, and security.
Partner closely with product, engineering, security, privacy, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact capabilities across the development lifecycle.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, technical coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
Improve engineering velocity by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in developer workflows, testing, deployment, and system operations.
Use data, metrics, and operational insights to guide prioritization and continuous improvement of system health and customer outcomes.
Contribute to incident prevention, diagnosis, and resolution for business-critical services.
Influence technical direction across team boundaries and help shape longer-term platform and product investments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable software systems that power privacy-conscious data collaboration products.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of backend services, platform components, and distributed systems used by internal and external customers.
• Translate ambiguous product, platform, and customer needs into clear technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering standards to improve reliability, maintainability, observability, and security.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, security, privacy, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact capabilities across the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, technical coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
• Improve engineering velocity by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in developer workflows, testing, deployment, and system operations.
• Use data, metrics, and operational insights to guide prioritization and continuous improvement of system health and customer outcomes.
• Contribute to incident prevention, diagnosis, and resolution for business-critical services.
• Influence technical direction across team boundaries and help shape longer-term platform and product investments.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
Experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems or backend services at scale.
Experience leading technical projects that span multiple engineers or teams.
Strong coding skills in one or more modern programming languages.
Experience with system design, API design, data modeling, and service-oriented architecture.
Experience improving software quality through testing, code review, observability, and operational best practices.
Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives.
Ability to break down ambiguous problems into practical technical solutions and phased execution plans.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Skills:
• Experience working on data platforms, analytics systems, privacy-preserving systems, or clean room technologies.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment environments.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and workflow orchestration.
• Experience improving team effectiveness through technical leadership, mentoring, and engineering process improvements.
• Experience in highly regulated, security-conscious, or privacy-focused environments.
• Experience balancing product delivery with platform investment and long-term architectural evolution.

Skills

Experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems or backend services at scale.
Experience leading technical projects that span multiple engineers or teams.
Strong coding skills in one or more modern programming languages.
Experience with system design, API design, data modeling, and service-oriented architecture.
Experience improving software quality through testing, code review, observability, and operational best practices.
Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives.
Ability to break down ambiguous problems into practical technical solutions and phased execution plans.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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.

Pay

The approximate annual base compensation range is $156,500 to $235,000.

Schedule

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.