Sr. Backend Engineer - Activations

Job 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 activation backend specific business logic, including matching, digest generation, delivery workflows optimization, etc. for very large volumes of data while focusing 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

Team Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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 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: medical, dental, vision, life and disability, employee assistance program, voluntary benefits, and perks programs for healthy lifestyle and career growth
• Savings: 401K matching plan – 1:1 match up to 6% of salary; employee stock purchase plan at 15% discount
• RampRemote: Comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program to enable productivity wherever you are
• Location: work in the heart of Location and/or from home (remote‑eligible roles)

Compensation

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.

EEO Statement

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.

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