Staff Data Engineer - First Party Graph

Job Description

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform. We believe connected data has the power to change the world. Our platform powers insights and experiences centered around the needs of real people, and in ways that keep the Internet open for all. LiveRampers thrive on building together with curiosity and humility—and have a good bit of fun along the way. We’re always looking for smart, kind, and creative people to grow our team and impact.

Mission: LiveRamp makes it safe and easy for businesses to use data effectively.

The Identity team at LiveRamp has a burning passion for building the best Identity Resolution capability in the world. Our platform ingests trillions of records of data, applies data science techniques to create massive, heterogeneous graphs, and then renders those graphs as the backend for extensible, reliable, high-performance APIs.

You will:

• Help your fellow engineers design and implement a scalable SaaS platform that is cloud agnostic.
• Gain experience working in multiple cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, Snowflake, and Azure.
• Build customizable, high-performance matching engines that can be deployed in regions all over the world to solve localized and client hosted data challenges.
• Implement customizable frameworks for graph access.
• Treat infrastructure as code leveraging tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Lead design for new product offerings in the Identity Resolution space.
• Design with privacy and security-first principles.

Your team will:

• Build first of its kind Identity Resolution capabilities globally leveraging a variety of cloud technologies capable of meeting demanding high availability thresholds while serving a spectrum of low latency versus high throughput use cases.
• Enable configuration-driven workflows that automate batch and streaming-based processing on top of Identity Resolution services and assets.
• Provide an orchestration platform for complex graph builds using the latest open source and cloud native technologies.

About you:

• Have 7+ years of experience writing and deploying production code.
• Strong ability to break down complex problems to their essential components and design and implement elegant solutions for them.
• Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for large volume services and APIs.
• Curious to learn and comfortable evaluating and adapting to the latest tools and industry best practices.
• Good understanding of distributed computing, graph algorithms, distributed SQL
• Proficient in Scala, Java, and Python.
• Experience with data processing platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Apache Beam, and Kafka. Proficient with programming using map-reduce paradigm.
• Proficient in cloud technologies
• Have a startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working, and productive.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with processing hundreds of terabytes or petabyte scale of data
• Strong mathematical background, knowledge of approximation algorithms and stream processing
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Kotlin or Go.
• Experience with Data Analytics Platform technologies like CDAP.
• Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for large volume services and APIs.

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, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• Whole Health Package: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, long term care, accident and critical illness insurance, pre-tax accounts (health, dependent and commuter), and a family forming benefit through Carrot. Plus Milk Stork, backup child and elder care, and discount on pet insurance, mental health support (via Talkspace)
• FlexPerks reimbursement program to provide flexibility and choice ($375/quarter) for fitness, emotional, financial, family, travel and entertainment, convenience and security expenses. (U.S. LiveRampers)
• Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead. Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
• RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we prove you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located.
• Location. Work in the heart of downtown Little Rock or from wherever you may be (within the US).

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.

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. California residents: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process.

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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