Engineering Manager, Production Engineering

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.

The Production Engineering team is responsible for owning and supporting deployments of global products, and providing first line operational support. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is excited about establishing and advocating for best practices of production engineering in the software field. Production Engineers work with LiveRamp's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions. Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization.

You will:

• Support and lead engineers working on LiveRamp's products and services, at different layers of the stack, on challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance and efficiency of systems

• Understand and contribute to technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges

• Drive technical architecture discussions, even on subjects you haven't had direct experience working with

• Develop lasting partnerships with product management, program management, software engineering and other related groups to build and improve our ever-growing large-scale distributed infrastructure and product environment

• Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles

• Help build and enrich an inclusive work environment comprised of people from diverse backgrounds

• Assess employee performance on an ongoing basis, address under-performance, and recognize and promote performance

• Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team including interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees

• Work in close collaboration with team members and Engineering organizations based in the U.S, Paris, Singapore, China, Australia and others.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of direct management experience in a technology role

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

• Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance

• Communication and cross-collaboration experience

• Experience in Infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform

• Experience with platforms like Kubernetes, Containers and public clouds (GCP or AWS)

• Experience with deployment and monitoring of highly scalable products.

• Hands on experience on FinOps and autoscaling Kubernetes clusters.

• Experience in Python or Go programming language.

• Understands how to engage other engineers as stakeholders

• Enjoy working as part of a distributed team: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working, and productive

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.