Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Liftoff

7d • $142,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, 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.
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.
As a Software Engineer at Liftoff, you will:
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 Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Requirements

• Strong coding ability (experience in Go is a plus, but not necessary).
• 5+ 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.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in managing Kafka
• Expertise in data

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 Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Benefits

• Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence.
• Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance.
• Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed