Sr. Software Development Engineer, Authentication and Access

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.

LiveRamp’s Authentication and Access (AAA) team builds critical, high-performance services and tools to solve authentication and authorization problems for LiveRamp's engineering teams and our customers. As a member of the AAA team, you will have a massive impact on the entire engineering organization. You will also play a direct role in shaping LiveRamp's customer experience, because AAA develops systems which customers interact with directly.

You will be joining a vertically-integrated team who embraces a DevOps mindset, with complete ownership over our entire tech stack. Our primary backend programming language is Go and the majority of our portfolio consists of modern, greenfield projects which we've been creating over the last 1-5 years.

You will:

• Be a key contributor to critical, highly-available, low-latency systems which power authentication and authorization for all of LiveRamp

• Lead cross-team engineering projects through the entire software development lifecycle

• Brainstorm and prototype complex software design problems

• Perform thorough code reviews and design reviews for other engineers on the team

• Architect solutions for integrating our authN/authZ systems throughout LiveRamp's stack

• Figure out ways to replace legacy authorization systems with our modern solutions

• Partner with our User Experience team to deliver best in class experiences to our customers

• Collaborate with the entire engineering organization to realize our security vision

• Craft high-quality technical documentation

• Participate in our on-call rotation to occasionally triage incidents or provide emergency support when rarely necessary. The AAA team invests heavily in quality and reliability which helps protect work-life balance.

• Empower LiveRamp's engineers to implement authentication and authorization securely

• Empower LiveRamp's customers to adopt security best-practices

About you:

• 4+ years experience in software development

• Passionate about the security and quality of the software you write

• Significant experience in designing, building, and maintaining backend web services

• Significant experience leading the entire development lifecycle of software products, including planning, design, coding, deployment, rollout, monitoring, and maintenance of services supporting these products

• Comfortable working with a distributed, global team

• Experience working with UX and Product teams

• Significant experience with at least one system programming language (Go, Rust, Java, C++ ...)

Preferred Skills (bonus points):

• Experience developing highly-available low-latency software

• Experience working on systems where security is critical

• Experience with Go

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)

• Experience as a team’s technical leader

The approximate annual base compensation range is $130,000 to $196,500. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

Benefits:

• 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,