Software Engineer - Big Data 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.

You will:

• Collaborate with a team of supportive and passionate software engineers, product, infrastructure and other internal partners to tackle challenging problems, execute on development projects that build, enhance and customize our high-performance data ingest, partitioning, graph and edge building systems.

• Foster a positive environment of integrity, operational excellence to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity by developing in Java and leveraging tools/frameworks like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP, Hadoop and Spark, SQL and err on the side of shipping fast and iterating.

Your team will: 

• Find feedback to be important in helping us grow as individuals and as a team; we’re always looking for chances to kindly share positive and constructive feedback and we aim to accept feedback with grace.

• Follow a Scrum-based devops model with a few guiding principles:

  • Support, trust and motivate the people involved

  • Continuous software delivery and process improvement

  • Minimize barriers to development and leverage automation

• Work on:

  • Edge Ingestion and Partitioning Framework: We could never process all trillion edges at once and luckily we don’t have to. Instead we process subgraphs that contain specific types of edges. 

  • Path Computation as a Service: We provide a service to other LiveRamp engineering teams for finding specific types of paths within our massive graph. It services 80,000 requests, 10PB data per day and this is possible due to its use of highly scalable Spark jobs/ SingleStore DB procedures and intelligent caching mechanism.

  • Project categories: besides product requests and enhancements, we work on projects in performance and cost optimization, security and legal compliance, reliability and quality initiatives, as well as architectural refreshes such as POC in restructuring our data to be more streaming/real time friendly, new REST API for relevant services, migration of apps to Spark, Parquet, and other new technologies that could make our processing faster, more scalable, maintainable and cost effective.

About you: 

• 2+ years of experience writing and deploying object oriented production code.

• 2+ years of experience writing and optimizing large-scale batch processing pipelines in Java, Spark/Hadoop and/or SQL.

• 2+ years of experience using cloud based platforms such as GCP, AWS, Azure or similar technologies.

• Have a passion for building large-scale distributed systems and are comfortable writing maintainable and high performance code.

• Comfortable learning and adapting to the latest tools and technologies.

• You love helping a team build and deploy software that conforms to best practices.

• Startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working, and productive.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with GCP products such as BigTable, BigQuery, Dataproc, PubSub or other data tools like Kafka, Hive, or Apache Beam

• Experience with development tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or Gradle

• Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for large scale systems and/or RESTful APIs

Benefits:

• People: work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

• In-Office Food: enjoy catered meals, boundless snacks.

• Fun: we host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, 

• Work/Life Harmony: flexible paid time off, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.

• Whole Health Package: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, long term care, accident and critical illness insurance, pre-tax accounts (health, dependent and commuter), and a family forming benefit through Carrot. Plus Milk Stork, backup child and elder care, and discount on pet insurance, mental health support (via Talkspace)

• FlexPerks reimbursement program to provide flexibility and choice ($375/quarter) for fitness, emotional, financial, family, travel and entertainment, convenience and security expenses. (U.S. LiveRampers)

• Learning perks : Learning and tuition reimbursements  

• 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 program to assist you in setting up a home office that works for you

• Location: Work from SF office and from home (Hybrid)

• 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

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. 

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