Staff Software Engineer, Bidding Policy

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.

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.

At Liftoff, we’re solving one of the core problems faced by every mobile app: growth. To do so, we build Machine Learning and Big Data-driven technology that can accurately predict which apps a user will like, and connect them in a compelling way. Our systems operate at a scale unseen outside of the largest Internet companies – processing over 4 million requests per second and interacting with over a billion users a week. Our technology is innovative and we have strong product-market fit; as a result, we're profitable and seeing tremendous growth.Across our engineering teams, we offer a wide range of opportunities for different skill levels and experiences.

About the Bidding Policy team:

Liftoff bids in millions of auctions per second, relying on various bidding modules to make the right decision in each auction. The Bidding Policy team at Liftoff sits at the intersection of these modules, exploring new approaches that harness the collective output of the Liftoff ML ecosystem to accurately and efficiently help mobile users discover new apps. This is a senior role that will work autonomously on a continuous process of experimentation, analysis, and deployment.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Bidding Policy team, you will:

• Work with an experienced team of Software and ML Engineers
• Build state-of-the-art ML models to make accurate bidding decisions in millions of auctions per second
• Have end-to-end ownership of the design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient systems
• Utilize in-house tooling, open …