Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Systems

Live Ramp 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, Live Ramp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. Live Ramp 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 Live Ramp 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.

We on the Pixel Serving team are part of the Identity Engineering teams  are Live Ramp’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.

• Primary
  
  Languages:
  
  Golang (main), Java and Python (partially).
• Core Technologies:
  Kubernetes, Redpanda, Single Store, Terraform.
• Cloud Ecosystem:
  Deep usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Big Table, Big Query, Pub/Sub, Data Proc and Data Transfer solutions.

• Contribute to building and scaling the next-generation, AI-forward advertising technology stack.
• Own several distributed real-time APIs and applications, written in Go, that service external partners.
• Develop robust cross-team data flows using modern streaming platforms like Redpanda.
• Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of core production systems.

• 5+ years of professional experience deploying high-performance production code.
• 2+ years of relevant experience building and launching Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) quickly, to scaling existing products to high volumes, and managing complex, high-reliability distributed systems.
• Strong track record of designing and building maintainable, large-scale systems.
• You are comfortable navigating complex, unfamiliar and unclear problem spaces and platforms.
• You enjoy translating business challenges into effective technical solutions.
• You thrive on mentoring and promoting engineering best practices within a team environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline.

• 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.

• 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:
  Live Ramp 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.

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.

More about us:

Live Ramp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting Live Rampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles-one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents.  

to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at Live Ramp.

Live Ramp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruit