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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Backend Engineer - Activations - **Company:** LiveRamp - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $196,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe Analytics, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Computer Programming, Data Sharing, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, OAuth, Open Source Technology, Apache Spark, Spring-boot, Backend, Rate Limiting, Production Code, Apache Kafka, Data Delivery, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines, Golang - **Published:** July 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/18C3F140F35F4321B3D60A28F2619E60/job/ ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience writing and deploying high-quality production code * Solid Java or Scala (or Golang where appropriate) programming skills * 3+ years of hands on experience in managing and optimizing Big Data ecosystems such as Spark, Hadoop/MR, Kafka * Distributed Systems Expert: Proven track record of delivering end-to-end large-scale projects and contributing to the design of complex architectures. * API Specialist: Deep experience building or consuming RESTful APIs, managing OAuth flows, and handling rate limiting/backoff strategies. * Experience working with multiple teams to understand the requirements and develop solutions * Demonstrated ability to build sustainable technical solutions that verifiably meet specific, well-defined business requirements * Experience selecting and using industry-standard open source and/or commercial tools and libraries to solve specific problems * Have made significant and meaningful development contributions to team projects involving distributed systems operating at scale * Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc.) * Solid communicator in relevant technical and product concepts * Proficiency with Spring Boot * Good to have experience in Distributed Databases (e.g. Singlestore) ## Description * Work collaboratively in a small team of engineers developing, maintaining and improving our products. * Help shape the future of our technology platform. * Infuse industry best practices into our team processes and development practices. * Implement activation backend specific business logic, including matching, digest generation, delivery workflows optimization etc. for very large volumes of data while having strong focus on cost, performance and system stability.. * Drive architectural design and implementation of our systems and interfaces. * Foster a positive environment of integrity, empowerment, initiative, and teamwork. * Provide operational support for our team's production systems. * Work with your team and managers to shape your role into a convergence of the company's needs and your own capabilities, interests, and desires. * Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data delivery pipeline at scale. * Demonstrate operational excellence supporting our production systems. Your team will: * Design, build and scale LiveRamp's activation backend specific workflows and algorithms. * Own health of LiveRamp's deconfliction, matching, digest management and other activation data pipeline operations, and continually optimize them. * Build global solutions that comply with all local regulations. * Work closely with various internal teams (engineering, product, QE, DevOps, SRE) on product delivery. * Build products that integrate to the rest of LiveRamp's Data Collaboration Platform * Continuously improve the quality, stability, simplicity and performance of our applications and libraries., LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 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. California residents : Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy (https://liveramp.com/privacy/california-personnel-privacy-policy/) for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process. To all recruitment agencies : LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. 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