High-Performance System Architect

Liftoff is a growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry. We help advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

The Production Engineering team plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our product delivery. You'll immerse yourself in a data-rich environment where your expertise will directly influence the enhancement of developer workflows, ensuring that every product and feature we release is not only reliable and efficient but also resonates with scale.

• Own one of Liftoff's core backend infrastructure, including large scale real-time data processing pipelines and high-performance front end servers.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
• Advocate the practice of engineering excellence culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems and code review.
• Architect, bootstrap, maintain and scale cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB) that maximize software development velocity.
• Architect, bootstrap, maintain and scale infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Build FinOps foundation to deliver on KPI for infrastructure cost and cost as key engineering metrics in addition to Four Golden Signals.
• Together with other engineering teams, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.

• BS in Computer Science with 8+ years of professional experience, or MS in Computer Science with 6+ years of professional experience, or equivalent PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
• Experience in design and implementation of large-scale low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services.
• Experience in profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
• Experience in building monitoring for modern microservice architectures.
• Experience in leading CI/CD implementation enabling self-autonomous development teams.
• Good understanding of different branching strategies.
• Experience in SRE / DevOps roles.
• Experience in maintaining and communicating infrastructure cost to non-engineering stakeholders.
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team's success.
• Experience with infrastructure cost tooling and visibility (AWS Cost Usage Report, Kubecost).
• Passionate about optimization problems.

We offer competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation varies based on location, experience as well as level.

Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. We strive to provide an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on various protected characteristics.