Software Development Engineer (SDE)
LiveRamp - Nantong City, China
LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.
Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that support high-performance data ingestion, partitioning, and constructing data pipelines.
- Plan and deliver key development milestones to improve system reliability, throughput, and maintainability.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code in Java, Go, Scala, and Spark that can be deployed reliably in production environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and internal teams to define requirements and implement solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident response processes.
- Contribute to infrastructure improvements by leveraging tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.
- Design with privacy and security-first principles and contribute to platform-level decisions that prioritize fast iteration and customer-centric delivery.
- Measure success by improved system performance metrics, reduced incident counts, increased team velocity, and milestone completion.
Your team will:
- Work on distributed data systems that process large-scale, heterogeneous datasets in near real-time.
- Build and enhance microservices that power complex models used in analytics and customer applications.
- Solve high-impact engineering problems related to performance optimization, fault tolerance, and cloud-native service orchestration.
- Partner closely with data engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver end-to-end features and improvements.
About you:
- 4+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable backend systems and distributed services in production environments.
- Good oral & written English skills, ability to communicate with foreign colleagues and to document requirements and specifications in English.
- Proficiency in Java or Go, and familiarity with Python or Scala.
- Experience with Apache Spark and Apache Airflow in a production setting.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Ability to evaluate and architect cloud solutions based on strengths and trade-offs.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform for cloud-native service deployment.
- Experience with one or more modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or SingleStore.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge & experience on SCRUM project management.
- BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.
Preferred Skills:
- Good experience programming in Node.JS / React / Vue.
- Good knowledge of React infrastructure and integration layers.
- Experience with modern data Lakehouse or query engines such as Apache Iceberg, Trino, or Presto.
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and observability tools for monitoring distributed systems.
- Exposure to large-scale data modeling.
Benefits:
- People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
- Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as summer ramp, happy hours, annual parties, and family day.
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid sick 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, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
More about us:
LiveRampers are empowered to live our values of committing to shared goals and operational excellence. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and to one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global teams across nine countries and four continents. By continually building inclusive, high belonging teams, LiveRampers can deliver exceptional work, champion innovative ideas, and be their best selves. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.
More about us:
LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.
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