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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. Come join the rocket ship! 🚀
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Team
Location
United States + 1 moreAll locations: United States | United Kingdom
Posted
80 days ago
Salary
$195K - $250K / year
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Team
Liftoff
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 BACKEND INFRASTRUCTURE 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. REQUIREMENTS: - Strong coding ability - experience in Go is a plus - 8+ years of software engineering experience. - B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work 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. NICE TO HAVE: - Expertise in managing Kafka - Expertise in data - Postgres (or SQL DBs generally) Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you! Locations: This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities/states and Canada: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA. We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City. 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 the candidate's location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role: - SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $225,000 - $250,000 - Portland, Denver, Austin, Boston, Other WA, Other CA: $205,000 - $230,000 - All other cities and towns in our approved states: $195,000 - $215,000 #LI-VM1 We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here. Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next. Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence. Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice: Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
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