Software Engineer - Infrastructure

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 the Infrastructure Team:

The Infrastructure Team at Liftoff builds the tooling necessary for managing and monitoring thousands of servers which run dozens of services. This includes host provisioning and configuration, rapid code deployment, service configuration and monitoring tools, and automated code testing and linting. Liftoff moves around hundreds of TB of data each day, and this team owns most of the infrastructure which powers our real-time data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Have end-to-end ownership of projects, and collaborate with a small team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
• Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its 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 authority in Clojure, Go, and the many other cutting-edge open source technologies that maximize our development velocity.
• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Requirements: 

• Strong coding ability (experience in Go and Clojure is a plus, but not necessary).
• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
• Experience with any major cloud technologies AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and ability to get things done.
• Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems.
• Ability to lead and collaborate across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Expertise in managing Kafka
• Expertise in data

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: $185,000 - $230,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $170,000 - $210,000
All other cities and towns in our approved states: $160,000 - $200,000

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