Senior Software Engineer, Productivity & Tooling

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 Engineering Productivity Team:

Our Engineering Productivity (EP) team is essential to enhancing our product delivery and engineering efficiency. We're a collaborative group that focuses on improving the productivity, satisfaction, and efficiency of all engineers, fostering cross-team communication, and driving adoption. We design and build tools, platforms and workflows that fill gaps between teams, optimize developer efficiency, reduce operational friction, and champion automation to maximize productivity. What we built serves as a foundation in creating positive team dynamics and clearer communication, ensuring that our engineers can focus on innovation and delivering high-quality products at scale. If you're passionate about optimization, collaboration, and making a tangible impact on engineering processes, you'll fit right in with our Engineering Productivity team.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize Developer Efficiency & Reduce Cognitive Load
• Eliminate Toil: Partner with engineering teams to identify friction points and automate repetitive workflows through custom tooling and integrations.
• Design with Empathy: Apply continuous improvement principles to ensure new tools or processes enhance developer satisfaction without adding overhead.
• Unify Metrics & Visibility: Consolidate developer metrics across repos, CI/CD, observability stacks, and dashboards to reduce context switching and improve situational awareness.
• Drive Adoption of Engineering Practices and Tooling
• Champion DORA: Advocate for measurable engineering health through DORA metrics and SPACES-aligned outcomes. Stay current with industry trends and help teams internalize their relevance.
• Partner for Lasting Change: Tailor adoption strategies to each team’s needs, co-developing solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.
• Close the Feedback Loop: Post-adoption, follow up regularly to gather input, iterate on tooling, and sustain engagement.
• Evolve Developer Workflow Platforms
• Automate Over Administer: Treat platforms like Jira, GitHub, or IDP as automation backbones - build scripts, webhooks, and workflows to improve coordination efficiency.
• Enforce Quality Gates: Implement detection and guardrails to ensure high-quality ticket hygiene and traceability (e.g. for sprint planning, progress tracking, risk assessment, etc)
• Continuously Upgrade the Stack: Evaluate and adopt features that boost planning fidelity, feedback loops, and team clarity.
• Instrument Developer Productivity with Data & Telemetry
• Integrate with Finance & Reliability: Build frameworks to automate reporting for finance, incident retros, or compliance workflows.
• Build Visibility Dashboards: Create real-time views of engineering throughput, DORA metrics, bottlenecks, and system health. Partner with Technical Managers to drive data-informed improvements.
• Enable Self-Service Insights: Empower engineering teams to make informed, autonomous decisions with minimal external dependencies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience; or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or JavaScript.
• Demonstrated impact building internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or internal tooling that improve developer workflows.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience with tools like Argo, Flux, or similar CI/CD systems.
• Experience with Infrastruct