ABOUT LIVERAMP

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform. We believe connected data has the power to change the world, and we aspire to make it safe and easy for companies to use data effectively. This all starts with our brilliant people. Those who want to make a lasting impact in all that they do will find a home at LiveRamp—an inclusive, collaborative environment where exceptional talent is nurtured, championed, and where people matter most.

ABOUT THIS JOB

LiveRamp is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build our LiveRamp Safe Haven product. 

We are building a future in which all data, anywhere, can be connected and useful without compromising individual data privacy. Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) have tremendous market-demand and strong theoretical foundations, but their adoption by industry is limited. We are changing this with Safe Haven. The fastest growing product within LiveRamp, Safe Haven allows our customers to keep private data safe while making their private data useful.

The LiveRamp Safe Haven engineering team makes this grand vision a reality. We operate like a startup within a larger company, stay on the bleeding-edge of what’s possible in privacy preserving analytics and federated query engines, and bridge the gap between theory and practice by employing rigorous software engineering practices to develop Safe Haven.

YOU WILL:

• Be responsible for owning the entire cycle of development, from inception to design, development, testing, and production.
• Build architecture designs and have an influential role in product roadmaps for the federated privacy preserving query engine
• Be working on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, schedulers, low latency access to distributed storage & cloud data warehouses.
• Need to understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a distributed environment.
• Be using modular design, incremental development to deliver high value user facing feature while making trade-off between time-to-market and long term product vision

ABOUT YOU:

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent knowledge of programming languages, especially SQL, Scala, Kotlin and Python
• Experience building distributed system and SQL query engines like Presto/Trino, Dremio, DuckDB 
• Experience working with columnar, analytical cloud data warehouse like BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift
• Strong foundations in computer science and algorithms
• Product-oriented mindset: you like offering technical solutions to business problems.
• Strong collaboration skills in cross-functional team settings
• Working knowledge of web related technologies and network protocols
• BSc/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred
• Type S(tartup) personality: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working and proactive.

BONUS POINTS:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Familiarity with Golang, and Kubernetes
• Strong data visualization skills
• Experience working on a remote-first team
• Direct experience with differential privacy, secure multiparty computation, federated learning, and/or federated databases