Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

at LiveRamp

• Job title: Senior Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $127,000 - $191,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Hadoop, Java, Kafka, Open Source, Scala, Spark, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Backend Engineer developing LiveRamp's data collaboration platform for innovative companies. Collaborating with engineering teams to improve products and implement integrations.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively in a small team of engineers developing, maintaining and improving our products.
• Help shape the future of our technology platform.
• Infuse industry best practices into our team processes and development practices.
• Implement integration-specific business logic, including audience/taxonomy synchronization, delivery workflows (batch, streaming, record sync) tuned to partner rate limits, and platform-specific error handling.
• Drive architectural design and implementation of our systems and interfaces.
• Foster a positive environment of integrity, empowerment, initiative, and teamwork.
• Provide operational support for our team’s production systems.
• Work with your team and managers to shape your role into a convergence of the company’s needs and your own capabilities, interests, and desires.
• Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data delivery pipeline at scale.
• Demonstrate operational excellence supporting our production systems.
• Design, build and scale LiveRamp’s partner data pipelines that helps deliver customers data to partner platforms faster.
• Own LiveRamp’s outbound platform integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity to the world's largest adtech and martech ecosystems.
• Build global solutions that comply with all local regulations.
• Work closely with various internal teams (engineering, product, QE, DevOps, SRE) on product delivery.
• Build products that integrate to the rest of LiveRamp’s Data Collaboration Platform.
• Continuously improve the quality, stability, simplicity and performance of our applications and libraries.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing and deploying high-quality production code
• Solid Java or Scala (or Golang where appropriate) programming skills
• 3+ years of hands on experience in managing and optimizing Big Data ecosystems such as Spark, Hadoop/MR, Kafka
• Distributed Systems Expert: Proven track record of delivering end-to-end large-scale projects and contributing to the design of complex architectures.
• API Specialist: Deep experience building or consuming RESTful APIs, managing OAuth flows, and handling rate limiting/backoff strategies.
• Experience working with multiple teams to understand the requirements and develop solutions
• Demonstrated ability to build sustainable technical solutions that verifiably meet specific, well-defined business requirements
• Experience selecting and using industry-standard open source and/or commercial tools and libraries to solve specific problems
• Have made significant and meaningful development contributions to team projects involving distributed systems operating at scale
• Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Solid communicator in relevant technical and product concepts
• Proficiency with Spring Boot
• Good to have experience in Distributed Databases (e.g. Singlestore)

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.
• 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.
• 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)
• A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located