Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Liftoff Mobile • Redwood City, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Liftoff’s Infrastructure Team builds and maintains tooling for managing and monitoring thousands of servers and dozens of services. Its work includes host provisioning and configuration, rapid code deployment, service configuration and monitoring tools, and automated code testing and linting. The team also owns much of the infrastructure powering Liftoff’s real-time data pipelines, which process hundreds of terabytes of data each day.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, you will own projects end to end and collaborate with a small team of experienced engineers. You will ship code frequently and measure its impact on users and revenue. The role is part of an engineering culture focused on engineering excellence, state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review. You will have opportunities to develop expertise in Go and other open-source technologies.

The role is remote-eligible in specified U.S. states, with a preference for candidates in the Pacific Standard Time Zone. Liftoff is remote-first, with U.S. hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City. Employees are expected to attend in-person gatherings at least once per quarter.

Requirements

• Strong coding ability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and system architecture.
• Experience with a major cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building high-scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
• Self-motivation, attention to detail, eagerness to learn, and ability to get things done.
• Genuine interest in or experience with debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed-systems problems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Go.
• Expertise in managing Kafka.
• Expertise in data.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects.
• Collaborate with a small team of engineers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure and tools for provisioning and configuring hosts, deploying code, configuring and monitoring services, and automating code testing and linting.
• Contribute to infrastructure powering real-time data pipelines.
• Ship code frequently and assess its quantified impact on users and business revenue.
• Participate in code review and risk-driven testing.

Benefits

• Equity.
• Health, vision, and dental benefits associated with the employee’s country of residence.
• Medical coverage may be included.
• Wellness stipends and additional perks may be available based on country of residence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior