Staff SDE

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 is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our team and help build the Unified Segment Builder (USB) — the next-generation, comprehensive segmentation solution for creating precise, real-time, and meaningful audiences.

USB is a foundational pillar in LiveRamp's product ecosystem. It empowers customers to create powerful audience segments using 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-party data, with support for combining, excluding, and overlapping datasets. The solution is designed for scale, performance, and usability — replacing legacy segmentation tools and delivering a unified, world-class user experience.

We are also rolling out AI-powered segment building capabilities based on USB, aiming to boost efficiency and expand the use cases beyond traditional campaign planners.

You will:

• Collaborate with APAC engineers, and partner closely with US-based product and UX teams.

• Design and implement scalable backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure powering the USB and other core LiveRamp products.

• Lead cross-functional technical discussions, drive architectural decisions, and evangelize engineering best practices across teams.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to the technical leadership of the local team.

• Ensure operational excellence by building reliable, observable, and maintainable production systems.

• Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data processing environment at scale.

Your team will: 

• Design, build, and scale USB and related segment-building products critical to LiveRamp's success.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, DevOps, SRE, and QA teams to deliver new features and improvements.

• Build systems that integrate with the broader LiveRamp Data Collaboration Platform.

• Continuously improve quality, performance, and developer experience for internal tools and services

About you: 

• 8+ years of experience writing and deploying production-grade backend code.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, kotlin, or Go.

• 3+ years of experience working with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce, and Kafka.

• Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, for building and managing scalable, reliable services

• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems in production environments.

• Strong track record of contributing to or leading architectural efforts for complex systems.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally GCP (AWS or Azure also acceptable).

• Proficiency with Spring Boot and modern backend frameworks.

• Experience working with distributed databases (e.g., SingleStore, ClickHouse, etc.).

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with building AI-enabled applications, especially those involving LLMs or generative AI workflows.

• Experience with LangChain or LangGraph frameworks for orchestrating multi-step AI agents is a strong plus.

Benefits:

• 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, accident, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth, and more. Your medical benefits extend to your dependents including parents.

More about us:LiveRamp's mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.

To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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