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Job Description: Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
CALIFORNIA (REMOTE)
Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, 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.

The Infrastructure Team at Liftoff builds the tooling necessary for managing and monitoring thousands of servers which run dozens of services. This includes host provisioning and configuration, rapid code deployment, service configuration and monitoring tools, and automated code testing and linting. Liftoff moves around hundreds of TB of data each day, and this team owns most of the infrastructure which powers our real-time data pipelines.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT LIFTOFF, YOU WILL:

Have end-to-end ownership of projects, and collaborate with a small team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its 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 authority in Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.
REQUIREMENT:

Strong coding ability (experience in Go is a plus, but not necessary).
5+ years software engineering experience.
Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
Experience with any major cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and ability to get things done.
Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems.
Ability to lead and collaborate across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems.
BONUS:

Expertise in managing Kafka
Expertise in data
This position is located in Pacific Standard Time zone.  

LOCATION:

THIS ROLE IS LOCATED IN ANY OF OUR APPROVED LOCATIONS IN PACIFIC TIME ZONE: CA, NV, OR, AND WA

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and NYC.

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS:

We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

COMPENSATION: 

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $165,000 - $200,000
Portland, Denver, Austin, Other WA, Other CA: $152,000 - $184,000
All other cities and towns in our approved states: $142,000 - $172,000
Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join the rocket ship and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem with us!