Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, 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.
About our Production Engineering Team:
Liftoff’s Production Engineering team play 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. It's more than just a job; it's about making a tangible impact in a team that values collaboration and innovation without the noise of industry buzzwords.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Liftoff’s Supply infrastructure.
- Partner with senior engineers to build reliable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of requests per second.
- Improve tooling and infrastructure to support frequent, high-quality software releases.
- Participate in code reviews and discussions to maintain an “engineering excellence” culture, focusing on best practices and risk-driven testing.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD).
- Participate in on-call responsibilities (in rotation with the team), learning how to manage and troubleshoot production systems.
- Follow established processes for day-to-day operations, emphasizing automation and proactive issue resolution.
- Collaborate with peers and senior team members, sharing learnings and contributing to team growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) with minimum 2yrs of professional experience, or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on experience with system design principles, data structures, and algorithms, applied in real-world scenarios.
- Professional experience in programming - Golang preferred.
- Familiarity with containerized workloads and/or Kubernetes.
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and implementations.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; enthusiasm for teamwork.
- Fluent in English, with the ability to communicate effectively both in writing and speaking.
Bonus
- Experience (e.g., internships, personal projects) in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (Postgres, Redis, RocksDB) or messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, especially in a containerized or Kubernetes environment.
- Understanding of or interest in machine learning workflows and infrastructure.
- Prior experience building self-serve platforms or improving developer workflows.
- Familiarity with security standards and protocols.Responsibilities
- Learn and participate in end-to-end ownership to 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.
- Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems and code review.
- Become an expert in cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD and etc) that maximize software development velocity.
- Participate in architecting, building and maintaining infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Together with other engineering teams, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
- Pro-actively learn and seek mentorship from more senior members of the team
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following is our salary range for this role in Singapore: 85,000 - 105,000 SGD
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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. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.
Liftoff's Compensation Strategy
Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
