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Senior Software Engineer, Productivity & Tooling

United States

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, 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 Engineering Productivity Team:

Our Engineering Productivity (EP) team is essential to enhancing our product delivery and engineering efficiency. We're a collaborative group that focuses on improving the productivity, satisfaction, and efficiency of all engineers, fostering cross-team communication, and driving adoption. We design and build tools, platforms and workflows that fill gaps between teams, optimize developer efficiency, reduce operational friction, and champion automation to maximize productivity. What we built serves as a foundation in creating positive team dynamics and clearer communication, ensuring that our engineers can focus on innovation and delivering high-quality products at scale. If you're passionate about optimization, collaboration, and making a tangible impact on engineering processes, you'll fit right in with our Engineering Productivity team.

Responsibilities:

  • Optimize Developer Efficiency & Reduce Cognitive Load
    • Eliminate Toil: Partner with engineering teams to identify friction points and automate repetitive workflows through custom tooling and integrations.
    • Design with Empathy: Apply continuous improvement principles to ensure new tools or processes enhance developer satisfaction without adding overhead.
    • Unify Metrics & Visibility: Consolidate developer metrics across repos, CI/CD, observability stacks, and dashboards to reduce context switching and improve situational awareness.
  • Drive Adoption of Engineering Practices and Tooling
    • Champion DORA: Advocate for measurable engineering health through DORA metrics and SPACES-aligned outcomes. Stay current with industry trends and help teams internalize their relevance.
    • Partner for Lasting Change: Tailor adoption strategies to each team’s needs, co-developing solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.
    • Close the Feedback Loop: Post-adoption, follow up regularly to gather input, iterate on tooling, and sustain engagement.
  • Evolve Developer Workflow Platforms
    • Automate Over Administer: Treat platforms like Jira, GitHub, or IDP as automation backbones - build scripts, webhooks, and workflows to improve coordination efficiency.
    • Enforce Quality Gates: Implement detection and guardrails to ensure high-quality ticket hygiene and traceability (e.g. for sprint planning, progress tracking, risk assessment, etc)
    • Continuously Upgrade the Stack: Evaluate and adopt features that boost planning fidelity, feedback loops, and team clarity.
  • Instrument Developer Productivity with Data & Telemetry
    • Integrate with Finance & Reliability: Build frameworks to automate reporting for finance, incident retros, or compliance workflows.
    • Build Visibility Dashboards: Create real-time views of engineering throughput, DORA metrics, bottlenecks, and system health. Partner with Technical Managers to drive data-informed improvements.
    • Enable Self-Service Insights: Empower engineering teams to make informed, autonomous decisions with minimal external dependencies.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience; or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or JavaScript.
  • Demonstrated impact building internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or internal tooling that improve developer workflows.
  • Deep understanding of cloud-native and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience with tools like Argo, Flux, or similar CI/CD systems.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, advanced test automation, or AIOps techniques to automate pipelines and dev environments.
  • Proven ability to use data (e.g., DORA metrics, workflow telemetry) to identify inefficiencies and drive measurable engineering improvements.
  • Solid grasp of engineering best practices such as trunk-based development, feature flags, and continuous integration, and how they affect software delivery performance.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of applying lean or continuous improvement principles.
  • Experience designing and integrating APIs, especially for developer-facing services and workflows.
  • Excellent communication skills; able to collaborate across different stakeholders (e.g. engineering, product, and leadership teams).
  • Experience influencing cross-team technical initiatives (e.g., rollout of new dev tools).
  • Comfortable with independent ownership and iterating based on developer feedback

Bonus:

  • Experience with IDP solutions (eg. Port.io)
  • Leading or contributing to DORA metric adoption, using data to improve speed and reliability.
  • Applying user-centric DevEx design principles (e.g., reducing build times, feedback loops) to drive adoption across teams.
  • Curiosity and hands-on experience with Generative AI in developer workflows (e.g., code generation, PR summarization, chatops).
  • Fluency in Mandarin (or other languages) for collaboration with distributed/global teams.

Experience enabling distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones through technical enablement and tooling.

Location:

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

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County (Costa Mesa), and New York City.

Travel Expectations:

This role requires a minimum of 1 week of travel per quarter for participation in quarterly planning and "Work Week."
Additionally, 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, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $165,000 - 195,000
  • Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $150,000 - $180,000
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $140,000 - $170,000

  • Canada: CAD 130,000 - 150,000

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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.

 

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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.

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