Sr. Software Engineer, Runtime

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Viant’s customers use the Demand Side Platform (DSP) to set up, run and monitor ad campaigns. As a Sr. Software Engineer on our Runtime team, you will work directly with Viant’s ad server, managing a high-volume, low-latency application that processes billions of unique requests a day. This role offers a great opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology as part of bid optimization, dynamic performance optimization, as well as develop a self-diagnostic and healing architecture. In this role, you will deliver simple, elegant, scalable, extensible solutions that strike the right balance between short-term and long-term considerations. You will design, develop, maintain, and trouble software features with an eye on cost, scalability, performance, and fault-tolerance. You will participate in design discussions, code reviews and bug triage / Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions.   Primarily supporting Viant DSP, you will collaborate with Product, other Engineering and Technical operations teams on the entire lifecycle from ideation to productization and beyond.

THE DAY-TO-DAY

• Provide technical expertise to implement and deliver various web and other system projects.
• Organize and participate in review sessions and contribute to design insights for the projects.
• Participate in system testing to ensure quality deliverables.
• Contribute to the development and continuous review of the existing projects as well as participate in view and scope of future projects.
• Engage in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Interface with program managers and other developers for project-based assignments.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum B.S in computer science or related fields preferred.
• Strong foundation in computer science and OOP.
• 5+ years of professional experience in the software industry.
• Experience programming in GoLang or Java.
• Experience with MySQL, Oracle and other database technologies.
• Able to develop detailed design specifications.
• Expert ability to effectively identify and resolve project issues in a timely manner.

LIFE AT VIANT

• Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the BEST PLACES TO WORK!
• Some our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. View a list of our benefits here.