Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Liftoff's Supply Platform team as a Software Engineer, designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily. This is a remote-first role requiring APAC time zone hours and occasional travel to Beijing for in-person meetings.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years professional experience; or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience
• Proficient in at least one of the following backend languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services
• Deep knowledge of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices
• Experience building data-intensive applications
• Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data driven design decisions
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills
• Enthusiastic about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (oral, writing, reading)

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a dynamic environment
• Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time bidding system
• Make code easy to read. Make sure it works efficiently
• Write tests and create documentation. Implement continuous integration
• Become informed with core development, product release and its business
• Implementing new features and streamlining existing services
• Minimizing complexity and increasing shared insight
• Mentor and share knowledge with team members
• PagerDuty on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in ad-tech
• Proficient in Golang
• Redis, RocksDB, Mongo, Kafka
• GRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github, CI/CD
• ML, Tensorflow