Sr. Staff Technical Lead and Manager

As the Sr. Staff Technical Lead and People Manager for the Identity Services team, you will be at the forefront of developing the world’s leading Identity Resolution capability. Our API manages 200 billion requests per month and is responsible for complex ambiguous matching against a heterogeneous identity graph to ensure input data is paired with the most accurate identifier. You will: Drive the technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for Identity Services, ensuring alignment with LiveRamp’s overall engineering and product goals. Lead a high‑performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement. Oversee day‑to‑day execution and delivery of high‑volume, low‑latency identity‑resolution capabilities, ensuring operational excellence and quality. Anticipate and resolve complex issues and conflicts beyond the team’s direct area of responsibility. Influence and guide other teams without direct authority, promoting cross‑functional collaboration to achieve shared goals. Hold other teams accountable for quality and timely delivery where dependencies exist. Actively engage in long‑term (12‑month) product planning and priority setting (StackRank), helping to define the strategic roadmap for Identity Services. Act as the primary technical liaison for Product Management, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment of product initiatives. Help identify, develop and hire strategic skills to enhance the overall capabilities of the LiveRamp engineering organization. Maintain a significant individual contributor component (~50 % of time) focusing on complex technical challenges, architecture and code‑quality reviews. About you: 3+ years of demonstrated strong leadership skills with a proven ability to deliver on products as the technical lead. 9+ years of hands‑on development experience, ideally leveraging Java or other JVM‑based languages. Experience overseeing coding of critical areas and developing the most difficult code across multiple system components, driving high coding standards and improving development practices. Demonstrated experience driving complex designs and high‑quality interface/API designs, leading design reviews and ensuring consistent architecture across teams and services. Track record of driving product/service design and vision inside engineering, using global industry and market trends to deliver successful products and fulfill unexpressed client needs. Experience mentoring junior engineers, providing technical guidance, and contributing to talent identification at staff level and above. Strong communicator, sharing information regularly and concisely. Good to have: Knowledge of the adTech space and identifiers used in the field. Experience with GCP and related services (e.g., DataProc, Dataflow, GKE). Experience with Temporal. Benefits: Competitive compensation—annual base range $177,000 to $256,500, subject to experience, skills, location and internal equity. Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home and paid parental leave. Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability, employee assistance program, voluntary benefits and perks programs. 401 K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6 % of salary. Employee Stock Purchase Plan—15 % discount on LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers). RampRemote: comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program. About LiveRamp LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or subcontracts because of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered in accordance with the SanFrancisco Fair Chance Ordinance. #J-18808-Ljbffr