LiveRamp
Staff Backend Software Engineer - Activations
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- Our systems process over one hundred thousand batch jobs per day, ranging in size from gigabytes to over 100 terabytes, and power distributions to hundreds of downstream destinations.
- Cumulatively, our systems process multiple exabytes per year.
- At LiveRamp, big data processing is not just for back-office analytics.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing and deploying high‑quality production code in a modern language (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, or similar), including owning complex systems in production.
Skills
- Apache Spark (or Dataproc) for large‑scale batch processing
- Experience with data warehouses such as SingleStore, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): GCS, Dataproc, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, IAM.
- Workflow orchestration: Temporal or Cadence; Airflow or similar systems for long‑running, failure‑prone workflows.
- The approximate annual base compensation range is $156,500 to $235,000.
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Compensation
- Cumulatively, our systems process multiple exabytes per year.
- Savings: Our 401K matching plan-1:1 match up to 6% of salary-helps you plan ahead.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
- To all recruitment agencies:
- LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- LiveRamp is an affirmative action and
This listing is sourced directly from LiveRamp's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.