Senior Backend Engineer - Identity at LiveRamp in New York City, NY

Senior Backend Engineer - Identity Location: New York 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 teams at LiveRamp. We are LiveRamp’s gateway for all realtime 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. You will: 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 Help Develop robust cross-team data flows using modern streaming platforms like Redpanda. Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of core production systems. Your team and tech stack: Our team builds and owns the entire stack, giving us full visibility into the business problems we solve. We follow Scrum methodology. Primary Languages: Golang (main), Java and Python (partially). Core Technologies: Kubernetes, Redpanda, SingleStore, Terraform. Cloud Ecosystem: Deep usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigTable, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, DataProc and Data Transfer solutions. About you: 5+ years of professional experience deploying high-performance production code. Proven ability to thrive in environments ranging from building and launching Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) quickly, to scaling existing products to high volumes, and managing complex, high-reliability distributed systems (2+ years of relevant experience in this space is required). 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. Bonus Points: 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Additional Locations: San Francisco