Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

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 is the core of Liftoff's success. Our group uses data-driven engineering thinking to optimize developer workflow in delivering products and features that are scalable, reliable and efficient. 

Responsibilities

• Have end-to-end ownership to one of Liftoff's core backend infrastructure, including large scale real-time data processing pipelines and high-performance front end servers.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
• Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems and code review.
• Become an expert in cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD and etc) that maximize software development velocity.
• Architect, build and maintain infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• You will share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems that are owned and managed by the team
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, or
  MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms;
• An incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Experience managing MongoDB in-house.
• Experience in using Infrastructure as Code to manage / provision resources
• Experience building monitoring for modern microservice architectures.
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (speaking, reading and writing) [For candidates outside of US]

Bonus:

• Experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience building CI/CD for large distributed systems or backend architectures (preferably on Kubernetes).
• Experience in building self-serve platforms and track records in driving shift-left adoption
• Understanding of various security standards, protocols and implementation details.
• Previous professional experience writing in Golang, Java, Scala, Python, NodeJS, C or C++.
• Experience with Multi-Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (Redshift, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark)
• 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 are our base salary ranges for this role: 

SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $155,000 - $195,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $140,000 - $180,000
All other cities and towns in our approved states: $130,000 - $170,000

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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 co