Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, 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.

About our Production Engineering Team:

Liftoff’s Production Engineering team is the core of Liftoff's success. Our group uses data-driven engineering thinking to optimize developer workflow in delivering products and features that are scalable, reliable and efficient. 

Responsibilities

• Have end-to-end ownership to one of Liftoff's core backend infrastructure, including large scale real-time data processing pipelines and high-performance front end servers.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with 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 expert in cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD and etc) that maximize software development velocity.
• Architect, build and maintain infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• You will share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems that are owned and managed by the team
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, or
  MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms;
• An incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Experience managing MongoDB in-house.
• Experience in using Infrastructure as Code to manage / provision resources
• Experience building monitoring for modern microservice architectures.
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (speaking, reading and writing) [For candidates outside of US]

Bonus:

• Experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience building CI/CD for large distributed systems or backend architectures (preferably on …