Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

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Singapore
Senior level
AdTech • Big Data • Machine Learning • Marketing Tech • Mobile • Software
Liftoff helps mobile businesses grow.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Production Engineering team at Liftoff, you'll oversee backend infrastructure and improve developer workflows in a data-rich environment. Responsibilities include managing large-scale data processing pipelines, enhancing tooling for faster deployment, and mentoring team members while ensuring infrastructure reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff's solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About our Production Engineering Team:

Liftoff's Production Engineering team plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our product delivery. You'll immerse yourself in a data-rich environment where your expertise will directly influence the enhancement of developer workflows, ensuring that every product and feature we release is not only reliable and efficient but also resonates with scale. It's more than just a job; it's about making a tangible impact in a team that values collaboration and innovation without the noise of industry buzzwords.

Responsibilities

  • Take end-to-end ownership of Liftoff's Supply infrastructure.
  • Architect, build, and maintain the reliability of large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of requests per second.
  • Improve tooling and infrastructure to enable shipping multiple times a day, with a quantified impact on millions of users and our business revenue.
  • Contribute to an "engineering excellence" culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code reviews.
  • Become an expert in cutting-edge open-source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD, etc.) that maximize software development velocity.
  • Share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems owned and managed by the team.
  • Ensure minimal Day-2 operations by focusing on automation, efficient management, and proactive issue resolution.
  • Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, or
    Master's degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent experience.
  • A strong commitment to quality and perfection, with the ability to balance these values with the need to ship products on time.
  • Strong understanding of computer architectures, system design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Professional experience in tackling complex programming challenges, preferably but not restricted to Golang.
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including:
    • Bootstrapping Kubernetes infrastructure
    • Writing tooling for the Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Experience using Infrastructure as Code to manage and provision resources.
  • Proven experience in building monitoring solutions for modern microservice architectures.
  • Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
  • Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
  • Passionate about supporting colleagues and committed to the team's success.
  • Fluent in English, with strong proficiency in both written and spoken communication.

Bonus

  • Previous experience in leading a team.
  • Proven experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Experience with multi-cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
  • Proficient in working with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis, RocksDB).
  • Experience with data lake, lakehouse, and data warehouse architectures
  • Familiarity with messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark).
  • Experience in building CI/CD pipelines for large distributed systems or backend architectures, preferably within a Kubernetes environment.
  • Ability to design and optimize infrastructure to support machine learning workflows, including large language models (LLMs), ensuring scalable training, inference, and deployment pipelines.
  • Experience in building self-serve platforms and a strong track record in driving shift-left adoption.
  • In-depth understanding of various security standards, protocols, and their implementation details.
  • Fluency in Mandarin is a plus.

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following is our salary range for this role in Singapore: 120,000 - 155,000 SGD 

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.


Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.


Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

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What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: Redwood City, CA
645 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Our mission is to help advertisers, publishers, game developers and Demand Side Platforms scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize their mobile apps. We support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment. As a globally distributed team, we value collaboration and communication. We care about fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture for our all of our team members and beyond.

Come join the rocket ship! 🚀

Why Work With Us

Our values -Growth Mindset, Guided By Data, Agency & Urgency, In This Together- fuel our team-first approach in continually ensuring every employee is supported, valued, and empowered. Come join our team!

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Employees work remotely.

We are a remote first company with Hubs located around the world. These Hubs are a place for employees and teams to gather for purposeful, collaborative and productive work and to host events throughout the year.

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