Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

Staff Software Engineer Viant
• Irvine, California, United States

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 troubleshoot 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, Engineering, and Technical Operations teams on the entire lifecycle from ideation to productization and beyond.

• Contribute to the development and continuous review of existing projects and participate in the planning and scoping of future projects.
• Collaborate with other internal teams to create and iterate on the runtime platform, ensuring a highly reliable, highly available, low‑latency platform.
• Own multiple subsystems of the runtime platform, having an outsized impact.
• Manage all phases of the software development life cycle.

• 8+ years of professional experience in the software industry.

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

• Investing in employee professional growth and well‑being. Viant was voted one of the BEST PLACES TO WORK
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• Employee benefits include fully paid health insurance
  , paid parental leave
  , and unlimited PTO
  , among others.

$150,000 - $210,000 a year. In accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.

Viant is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Viant prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, reproductive health decision making, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.