Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

The Data Platform team manages Liftoff’s data infrastructure that powers analytics and ML across the company. This role is open to find a strong backend engineer that’d help evolve this infrastructure to support increased scale, faster data access and experimentation.

AS A BACKEND ENGINEER AT LIFTOFF, YOU WILL:

• Build and have end-to-end ownership of Liftoff's core engines, including distributed data stores, data processing pipelines, and high-performance services.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
• Partner with the product team to plan short and long term strategy
• Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Very strong coding ability.
• Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
• A high bar for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
• Sets ego aside in pursuit of finding the best solution, no matter where it comes from.
• Self-motivated and ability to get things done.
• Excited to work on large scale data stores and distributed systems.
• Ability to lead across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Experience building and debugging high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
• A healthy sense of fun!

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience in big data engines such as Trino, Spark
• Experience with Hive metastore, Iceberg or Delta Lake
• Experience with streaming data
• Experience with data stores such as Redis

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!  

Location:

This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities in the Pacific Time Zone: CA, NV, OR, and WA

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's location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

• SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $185,000 - $235,000
• Seattle/Olympia, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $170,000 - $215,000
• All other cities and towns in our approved states: $160,000 - $200,000

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