Software Engineer, Backend

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.

We on the Pixel Serving team are part of the Identity Engineering team at LiveRamp. We ingest and provide real time identity data, which connects the billions of different identifiers for consumers and the devices they use online. Help us process the tens of billions of requests we receive every single day as efficiently as possible.

You will:

• Help create and improve the real time applications, written in Go, that our partners use on their website to exchange user information

• Help the team manage the exchange of large amounts of data between our applications through data streaming systems like Redpanda

• Learn and use data streaming to create identity resolution applications and data pipelines that share the data we collect with a reporting system, using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub and other related Cloud Technologies

• Continuously work to make our systems more reliable and easier to maintain

• Demonstrate eagerness to learn and grow within the team, showing a proactive approach to acquiring new skills and technologies.

Your team will: 

• We develop mainly in Golang, partly in Java, and also use Terraform, Kubernetes, Redpanda, Gazette, Hadoop and multiple Google cloud technologies (BigTable, BigQuery, Datatransfer jobs , Pub/Sub etc). We will use new technologies and languages if they help us better solve a problem

• We follow a Scrum methodology

• We will be working on migrating the data streaming platform at Liveramp to Redpanda

• We build and own the API applications that publish to it, making us fully aware of the use cases we help solve.

In order to be successful in this role you: 

• Have 1+ years of experience writing and deploying high performance production code to deliver business value

• Have 1+ years of experience working on efficient real time distributed systems

• Have a passion or track record for designing and building maintainable large-scale distributed systems

• You are self-motivated and not afraid of learning new technologies and you can find your way around sophisticated systems

• You enjoy being a part of a team; You are a respectful and collaborative team player

• You are productive in your work, have ownership and commitment to delivery with high ethical standards

• Have a product-oriented mindset: you like offering technical solutions to business problems

• You are comfortable diving deep in multiple technologies, platforms, and problem spaces, even if they are currently unfamiliar

• Excellent communication skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Google Cloud technologies (GKE, BigTable, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)

• Experience with streaming technologies and processing (Kafka, Redpanda, Spark streaming, Apache Storm, Flink)

• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems

• Experience with implementing interfaces and infrastructure for large volume services and APIs

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 New York

The approximate annual base compensation range is $128,500 to $151,000. 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:

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.

More about us:

LiveRamp’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 LiveRampers 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. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.