Liftoff

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform in the mobile AdTech space.

501-1000 employees
Founded 2012
Advertising Platforms
Private Company

Remote-First Company

This company operates with a remote-first culture, allowing team members to work from anywhere.

Open Positions12

United States (Remote)Full-TimePerformance MarketingPosted
  • Design, build, and operate the high-throughput, low-latency services that receive bid requests, execute Liftoff’s bidding logic, and respond to ad exchanges in real time.
  • Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems that process millions of requests per second under strict latency constraints.
  • Develop and optimize GPU-powered inference services that execute neural network models using TensorRT.
  • Profile end-to-end inference pipelines to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in GPU utilization, batching, memory access, serialization, networking, and request handling.
  • Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize new model architectures and features, translating modeling requirements into efficient and reliable serving implementations.
  • Design and operate large feature store fleets that provide low-latency access to real-time and precomputed features.
  • Develop benchmarking and performance-analysis tools that help engineers compare models, understand latency and throughput trade-offs, and identify regressions before deployment.
  • Improve experimentation tooling that allows machine learning teams to orchestrate offline training runs, evaluate candidate models, and maintain model leaderboards.
  • Own changes through their full lifecycle—from system design and implementation to testing, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and continued optimization.
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About Liftoff

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform that fuels the mobile app growth cycle. Merging with Vungle in 2021, Liftoff built one of the world's largest independent, privacy-friendly platforms, helping over 6,600 mobile businesses in 74 countries. You'll work on solutions that span user acquisition, engagement, monetization, and analytics across diverse sectors like gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment.

How We Work

Liftoff operates as a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City. They also have a global presence with 12 offices in eight countries. The company prioritizes flexibility, autonomy, collaboration, and career development, fostering an environment where employees can do their best work. While remote-first, they offer in-person team gatherings at least once per quarter for collaboration and team building. They lead globally but empower locally, designing for equity in planning for employees and supporting diverse, environmentally friendly vendors. Liftoff fosters a culture of authenticity, courage, and compassion, with a tangible motivation to embrace and share uniqueness. They evolve through feedback, listening to employees to shape future initiatives.

Engineering at Liftoff

At Liftoff, engineers tackle the complex challenges of building and scaling data platforms that power AI-driven performance marketing. You'll work with advanced neural networks and massive datasets, processing petabyte-scale event-stream data with a minimum of 1 billion events per day. The team is driving towards state-of-the-art technologies, focusing on data reliability, quality, observability, and lineage. Expect to engage with cutting-edge data engineering concepts, including ETL frameworks, data modeling, distributed processing, and streaming systems (like Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink), alongside cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift. Engineers here define and execute long-term data engineering strategies, ensuring scalability and performance for machine learning and analytics across the organization.

Why Join Us

  • Impact the mobile app economy, driving revenue growth for over 6,600 businesses across 74 countries.
  • Work on cutting-edge AI-powered platforms handling petabyte-scale data and advanced machine learning systems.
  • Contribute to a remote-first company that values flexibility, autonomy, and encourages continuous learning and career advancement.
  • Shape the future of privacy-friendly mobile advertising within a global and diverse team.
  • Experience a culture that encourages authenticity, courage, and compassion, with support for continuous feedback and improvement.

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefits with full coverage of basic and premium plans.
  • Unlimited PTO for US employees, paid volunteer time, and company-wide vacation during the last week of the year.
  • 401(k) with company matching and employee stock options.
  • Family planning stipend up to $15,000 for services like IVF, adoption, and gestational carrier support.
  • Monthly stipends for lifestyle, commuting, and a home-office for remote employees.
  • Continuing education stipend, customized development tracks, and a mentorship program.
  • Company-sponsored outings and events, including regional meetups and annual gatherings.
  • Fitness stipend.

Tech Stack

mobilewidgets

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