As the Staff Engineer, Technical Lead and People Manager for the Identity Services team, you will be at the forefront of developing the world's leading Identity Resolution capability. Our API manages 200 billion requests per month. This involves complex ambiguous matching to our vast, heterogeneous Identity graph to ensure input data is paired with the most accurate Identifier available.
You will:- Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Identity Services team, ensuring alignment with LiveRamp's overall engineering and product goals.
- Lead a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the day-to-day execution and delivery of high-volume, low-latency identity resolution capabilities, ensuring operational excellence and quality.
- Anticipate and resolve complex issues and conflicts that extend beyond the team's direct area of responsibility.
- Influence and guide other teams without direct authority, promoting cross-functional collaboration to achieve shared goals.
- Hold other teams accountable for quality and timely delivery when dependencies exist.
- Actively engage in long-term (12-month) Product planning and priority setting (StackRank), helping to define the strategic roadmap for Identity Services.
- Be the primary technical liaison for Product Management, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment of product initiatives.
- Help identify, develop, and hire strategic skills to enhance the overall capabilities of the LiveRamp engineering organization.
- Maintain a significant individual contributor (IC) component (approximately 50% of time), focusing on complex technical challenges, architecture, and code quality reviews.
About you:- 3+ years of demonstrating strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to deliver on products as the technical lead.
- 9+ years of hands-on development experience, ideally leveraging Java or other JVM based languages.
- You oversee coding of critical areas and develop the most difficult code across multiple system components, driving high coding standards and improving development practices.
- Demonstrated experience driving complex designs, high-quality interface/API designs, and overall architecture improvements across multiple teams and services, leading design reviews and ensuring consistent architecture.
- Track record of driving product/service design and vision inside engineering, using global industry and market trends to deliver successful products and fulfilling unexpressed client wants.
- Experience mentoring more junior engineers, providing technical guidance, and contributing to talent identification at Staff Level & above.
- Strong communicator. Sharing information regularly and concisely.
Good to Have- Knowledge of the adTech space and particularly the identifiers used in the field.
- Experience with GCP & related services (i.e DataProc, Dataflow, GKE)
- Experience with Temporal
The approximate annual base compensation range is $177,000 to $256,500. 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.
Benefits:- People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
- Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
- Savings: Our 401K matching plan-1:1 match up to 6% of salary-helps you plan ahead.
