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.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, orMaster’s degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent experience.
• A strong commitment to quality and perfection, with the ability to balance these values with the need to ship products on time.
• Strong understanding of computer architectures, system design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Professional experience in tackling complex programming challenges, preferably but not restricted to Golang.
• Professional experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including:
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• Bootstrapping Kubernetes infrastructure

• Writing tooling for the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code to manage and provision resources.
• Proven experience in building monitoring solutions for modern microservice architectures.
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
• Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about supporting colleagues and committed to the team’s success.
• Fluent in English, with strong proficiency in both written and spoken communication.

• Take end-to-end ownership of Liftoff’s Supply infrastructure.
• Architect, build, and maintain the reliability of large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of requests per second.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to enable shipping multiple times a day, with a quantified impact on millions of users and our business revenue.
• Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code reviews.
• Become an expert in cutting-edge open-source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD, etc.) that maximize software development velocity.
• Share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems owned and managed by the team.
• Ensure minimal Day-2 operations by focusing on automation, efficient management, and proactive issue resolution.
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.