Senior Backend Engineer – Activations

LiveRamp

Backend Engineer enhancing LiveRamp’s data collaboration platform through backend-specific logic and high-quality code. Collaborative role focusing on large-scale data operations with a strong emphasis on performance.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $196,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopJavaKafkaOpen SourceScalaSparkSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data delivery pipeline at scale.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Proven track record of delivering end-to-end large-scale projects and contributing to the design of complex architectures.
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

Comp & perks

Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
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.
Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers).
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScalaGolangSparkHadoopKafkaRESTful APIsSpring BootDistributed DatabasesOAuth Management

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationTeamworkProblem-SolvingInitiative