The Infrastructure Team at Liftoff builds the tooling necessary for managing and monitoring thousands of servers which run dozens of services. This includes host provisioning and configuration, rapid code deployment, service configuration and monitoring tools, and automated code testing and linting. Liftoff moves around hundreds of TB of data each day, and this team owns most of the infrastructure which powers our real-time data pipelines.

AS A BACKEND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER AT LIFTOFF, YOU WILL:

• Have end-to-end ownership of projects, and collaborate with a small team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
• Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its 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 authority in Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Strong coding ability - experience in Go is a plus
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
• Experience with any major cloud technologies AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience building high-scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and ability to get things done.
• Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems.
• Ability to lead and collaborate across team and role boundaries to effect large-scale change in culture and systems.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Expertise in managing Kafka
• Expertise in data
• Postgres (or SQL DBs generally)

Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!  

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Locations:

This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities/states and Canada: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Travel Expectations:

We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Compensation: 

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 the candidate's location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $225,000 - $250,000
• Portland, Denver, Austin, Boston, Other WA, Other CA: $205,000 - $230,000
• All other cities and towns in our approved states: $195,000 - $215,000

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