Staff Software Engineer - Clean Room

LiveRamp • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

You will: Design, build, and operate scalable software systems that power privacy-conscious data collaboration products. Lead the technical design and delivery of backend services, platform components, and distributed systems used by internal and external customers. Translate ambiguous product, platform, and customer needs into clear technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes. Drive architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering standards to improve reliability, maintainability, observability, and security. Partner closely with product, engineering, security, privacy, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact capabilities across the development lifecycle. Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, technical coaching, and hands-on collaboration. Improve engineering velocity by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in developer workflows, testing, deployment, and system operations. Use data, metrics, and operational insights to guide prioritization and continuous improvement of system health and customer outcomes. Contribute to incident prevention, diagnosis, and resolution for business-critical services. Influence technical direction across team boundaries and help shape longer-term platform and product investments.

Your team will: The team builds and evolves software that enables secure, scalable, and reliable data collaboration within LiveRamp’s Clean Room organization. They work on systems that support privacy-aware computation, distributed data processing, service reliability, and product platform capabilities. The team partners across engineering and product functions to solve complex technical problems, improve developer and customer experience, and deliver systems that can scale with business growth. They balance near-term execution with long-term platform thinking, with a strong focus on operational excellence, measurable impact, and responsible innovation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems or backend services at scale.
• Experience leading technical projects that span multiple engineers or teams.
• Strong coding skills in one or more modern programming languages.
• Experience with system design, API design, data modeling, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience improving software quality through testing, code review, observability, and operational best practices.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives.
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems into practical technical solutions and phased execution plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on data platforms, analytics systems, privacy-preserving systems, or clean room technologies.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment environments.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and workflow orchestration.
• Experience improving team effectiveness through technical leadership, mentoring, and engineering process improvements.
• Experience in highly regulated, security-conscious, or privacy-focused environments.
• Experience balancing product delivery with platform investment and long-term architectural evolution.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable software systems that power privacy-conscious data collaboration products.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of backend services, platform components, and distributed systems used by internal and external customers.
• Translate ambiguous product, platform, and customer needs into clear technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering standards to improve reliability, maintainability, observability, and security.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, security, privacy, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact capabilities across the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, technical coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
• Improve engineering velocity by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in developer workflows, testing, deployment, and system operations.
• Use data, metrics, and operational insights to guide prioritization and continuous improvement of system health and customer outcomes.
• Contribute to incident prevention, diagnosis, and resolution for business-critical services.
• Influence technical direction across team boundaries and help shape longer-term platform and product investments.

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.

What This Job Offers

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