Sr. Software Engineer - Big Data
- Salary
- $130,000 - $196,500
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 7 November 2026.
About the role
LiveRamp's standard text
LiveRamp is shaping the future of responsible data collaboration between the world’s leading brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators. As consumers embrace new AI-driven experiences, the LiveRamp data collaboration network exponentially expands the breadth and accuracy of the data on which marketing AI capabilities operate, powering deeper customer insight and measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.
We on the Identity Engineering team maintain the graph processing engine that connects the trillions of different identifiers for consumers and the devices they use online. Help us process this trillion edge graph as quickly and efficiently as possible.
We handle product requests and enhancements, focusing on scalability, modernization, performance, cost, security, legal compliance, reliability, and quality. Projects include architectural refreshes like POCs for batch data processing, developing new REST APIs, and migrating applications to Spark and SingleStore. These initiatives aim to improve processing speed, scalability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness.
You will:
- Lead complex problems, by breaking into their essential components, design and implement elegant solutions focussing on value delivered.
- Deliver on the problems problems by collaborating with the team and cross functional teams
- Modernize our applications to be modular, scalable by leveraging the latest stack
- Collaborate closely with product managers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software
- Design with privacy and security-first principles and err on the side of shipping fast and iterating.
About you:
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, primarily focused on big data technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience writing and optimizing large-scale batch processing using Spark/Hadoop or similar
- 3+ years of Java , SQL programming skills
- 2+ years of experience using cloud based platforms such as GCP, AWS, Azure or similar technologies.
- Experience with technologies like Docker, Terraform and/or Kubernetes
- Startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working, and productive.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with GCP products such as BigTable, BigQuery, Dataproc, PubSub or other data tools like Kafka, Hive, or Apache Beam
- Experience with development tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or Gradle
- Experience with designing and implementing interfaces and infrastructure for large scale systems and RESTful APIs
The approximate annual base compensation range is $130,000 to $196,500. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.
LiveRamp's standard text
We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates.
To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
What this role asks for
Standard for data engineering roles
AWS · Azure · GCP · SQL · Spark
Common in data engineering postings at any company.
66% of this description is written for the role. The rest is LiveRamp's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with LiveRamp's other open jobs.
The team: Platform and Identity Engineering
This role is one of 8 open in Platform and Identity Engineering. 7 were posted in the last 30 days, including 3 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
GCP (7 of 8), Kubernetes (6 of 8), AWS (4 of 8), Spark (4 of 8), CI/CD (3 of 8), Golang (3 of 8), Java (3 of 8)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Sr. Engineering Manager, Activation Platform posted Nov 6
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Nov 2
- Staff Technical Lead Manager posted Oct 29
- Senior Fullstack Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Director, Quality Engineering posted Oct 9
- Staff Backend Software Engineer - Activations posted Oct 1
From the team and dates on LiveRamp's own job board.
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