Staff Software Engineer

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Staff 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. You will have the opportunity to be the technical lead of projects that involve 2-3 other engineers.   Primarily supporting Viant’s Demand Side Platform, 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

• Contribute to the development and continuous review of existing projects as well as participate in view and scope of future projects
• Collaborate with other, internal teams to create and iterate on the runtime platform to create a highly reliable, highly-available, low-latency, runtime platform
• Have an outsized impact by owning multiple subsystems of the runtime platform
• Manage all phases of the software development life cycle

MUST HAVE

• 8+ years of professional experience in the software industry

GREAT TO HAVE

• Experience in the AdTech domain
• Proficiency in the Go programming language
• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• Experience designing, building and delivering high quality software
• Knowledge of modern programming languages
• Knowledge of relational databases like MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server with experience in writing SQL
• Knowledge of cloud based technologies, especially AWS and GCP

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.