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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Activations

LiveRamp Ventures · San Francisco · Remote

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About LiveRamp Ventures

LiveRamp Ventures invests in companies that help unlock the value of data.

About the role

You are excited to adapt to major industry shifts (including the rapid evolution of AI), and approach your work with curiosity, humility, and a strong desire to keep learning. Comfortable working in a cloud environment (ideally GCP) and with containerized workloads (Kubernetes/GKE or similar); you understand how infra choices impact performance, cost, and reliability. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP): GCS, Dataproc, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, IAM
  • Workflow orchestration: Temporal or Cadence, Airflow or similar systems for long‑running, failure‑prone workflows
  • Apache Spark (or Dataproc) for large‑scale batch processing
  • Experience with data warehouses such as SingleStore, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar
  • Streaming systems: Kafka/Redpanda, Pub/Sub, or equivalent event/streaming platforms, especially for high‑volume or incremental data processing
  • Experience designing multi‑tenant systems that enforce rate limits, fairness, and SLAs across many customers and destinations
More about this role

LiveRamp is shaping the future of responsible data collaboration between the world’s leading brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators. As consumers embrace new AI-driven experiences, the LiveRamp data collaboration network exponentially expands the breadth and accuracy of the data on which marketing AI capabilities operate, powering deeper customer insight and measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com .

The Activations Backend team is responsible for the bulk of big data processing that powers LiveRamp’s primary activation product, which delivers hundreds of millions in annual recurring revenue. Our systems process over one hundred thousand batch jobs per day, ranging in size from gigabytes to over 100 terabytes, and power distributions to hundreds of downstream destinations. Cumulatively, our systems process multiple exabytes per year. We provide detailed monitoring, statistics, error recovery, and resiliency to keep this core product reliable for our largest customers.

At LiveRamp, big data processing is not just for back-office analytics....

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