Sr. Backend Engineer - Activations

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

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

You will:

• 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 activation backend specific business logic, including matching, digest generation, delivery workflows optimization etc. for very large volumes of data while having strong focus on cost, performance and system stability..

• 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.

Your team will: 

• Design, build and scale LiveRamp’s activation backend specific workflows and algorithms.

• Own health of LiveRamp’s deconfliction, matching, digest management and other activation data pipeline operations, and continually optimize them.

• 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.

About you: 

• 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:

• 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)

• RampRemote: 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

• Location: work in the heart of *Location* and/or from home (remote-eligible roles)

More about us:

LiveRampers are empowered to live our values of committing to shared goals and operational excellence. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and to one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global teams across nine countries and four continents. By continually building inclusive, high belonging teams, LiveRampers can deliver exceptional work, champion innovative ideas, and be their best selves. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.

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.

• 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. 

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 

We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates.

California residents: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process.

To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.