Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, 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 the Experimentation Platform team:

The Experimentation Platform team at Liftoff is focused on improving Accelerate's performance by increasing the rate and rigor of experiments through better statistics, methodologies, data, and tools. In this role you would maintain AB testing infrastructure, refining core metrics, developing testing protocols, and implementing system improvements to enhance experimentation velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Work with an experienced team of Machine Learning, Software, and Infrastructure Engineers that are building the next generation ML platform for Liftoff.
• Design, engineer & implement reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient systems to support our next generation ML Platform, with a focus on experimentation services and tooling.
• Design and optimize systems for A/B testing and other experimental frameworks.
  • Lead the development and maintenance of our experimentation platform to support high-volume A/B testing.
• Enhance the platform to run more experiments simultaneously and improve the speed and accuracy of result analysis.
• Deliver business results by improving the pace of R&D performance releases.
• Utilize vendor-based products (AWS, Tableau, Neptune, etc.), open-source technologies (PyTorch, Trino, PySpark, etc.) and in-house tooling.

Requirements: 

• Bachelors in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with some experience in machine learning and data analysis.
• Very strong coding ability in one of the following languages: Go, Python or Clojure 
• Strong core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems)
• Experience with A/B testing and statistical analysis.
• Strong background in big data technologies (Trino, Spark).

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! 

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 candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $170,000 - $190,000Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $156,400 - $174,800All other cities and towns in our approved states: $145,600 - $163,400

Preferred location for this position is Pacific timezone.

Location:

This role is eligible to work out of any of our below North America office locations or is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities.

US office locations: Redwood City (HQ), Los Angeles, New York City

Additionally, Liftoff recently announced approved North American locations from which some employees may request to work from any city and county: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington in the US, and Canada.

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

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.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

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.