Principal Software Engineer - Deployment Strategist

WE ARE VERITONE 

Veritone (NASDAQ: VERI) designs human-centered AI solutions. Serving customers in the talent acquisition, commercial and public sector industries, Veritone’s software and services empower individuals at the world’s largest and most recognizable brands to run more efficiently, accelerate decision making and increase profitability. Veritone’s leading enterprise AI platform, aiWARE™, orchestrates an ever-growing ecosystem of machine learning models, transforming data sources into actionable intelligence. By blending human expertise with AI technology, Veritone advances human potential to help organizations solve problems and achieve more than ever before, enhancing lives everywhere. To learn more, visit Veritone.com.

POSITION SUMMARY 

Veritone’s newly formed AI Solutions Group is a consulting and services group that addresses the growing demand for expert guidance in AI development and implementation. The AISG group will empower businesses on their digital transformation journey from custom AI strategy development and innovation workshops to custom AI workflow solutions.

You will operate at the intersection of data, technology, and strategy, working closely with clients to address their most critical challenges. This role involves understanding complex organizational problems, designing innovative solutions using advanced software platforms, and driving end-to-end implementation. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including engineers, data scientists, business leaders, and operational teams, to ensure that technology delivers measurable value.

This role demands a blend of technical expertise, analytical rigor, and strategic thinking, along with strong interpersonal skills to bridge the gap between technology and business needs.  You will gather requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly, adapting to evolving priorities.  Whether optimizing supply chains, combating fraud, or enhancing public safety, your work will drive tangible impact across industries and communities.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Your work will be instrumental in helping organizations across many industries, empowering companies to harness the power of AI in addressing business challenges efficiently and at scale. You will design, build and champion robust software solutions that will empower organizations to achieve real business outcomes by transforming data modernization into actionable AI solutions. From strategy to implementation, we help deliver measurable results in days—not years.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partnering with clients to understand their operations and challenges.
• Developing and deploying data-driven workflows and analytics tools.
• Facilitating collaboration between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensuring adoption of software solutions through training and support.
• Delivering measurable outcomes aligned with client goals.

TECHNOLOGY

• Write scalable code across the technology stack to help facilitate hundreds of AI engines, an intelligent data lake, APIs, workflow tools and various industry applications.
• Design and implement GraphQL API services in Nodejs, Golang using open source technologies including Docker, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Git version control and more.
• Exemplify what it means to build optimized and efficient code.
• System-oriented, you are concerned with topics such as end-to-end data flows and its impact on the system, scalability of each layer within the system, the technologies chosen throughout the stack, data persistence, and messaging, with the goal of driving excellence through the stack.
• You have a DevOps mindset: instrumentation and correlation, build pipelines, development and stage environments, development practices, automating tasks, speed, and accuracy of testing, etc.
• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain software code for our high-performance business applications.

PROCESS

• Lead the engagement with Product and Engineering teams to build or enhance applications and services.
• Lead new designs, leveraging the ideas from the team to come up with the optimal solutions.
• Leverage code reviews, design discussions, and other engagements as an opportunity to level up your team.
• Analyze and optimize backend application code for efficiency. 

TEAM

• Partner with product, design and infrastructure teams to build, design and enhance our applications and services.
• Take ownership of your team’s commitments, assisting when needed, and encouraging the team to meet their commitments.
• You are a leading voice in the technology team:  sharing knowledge, asking questions, and candidly challenging assumptions, and proposing new pathways forward.
• Challenge the status quo of the team by: 
• Model how the team and organization can improve. 
• You are a technical expert (and domain expert) in multiple technologies your team uses.
• Establish and maintain relationships with people from other engineering teams, functional areas, and business units.

INFLUENCE

• Influence the whole team, making an impact across the board, not just on specific parts of it.
• Model thoughtful risk-taking, pointing to examples from your past as a guide. Taking on tough assignments, using these assignments to mentor others on the team, accelerating their career growth and encouraging them to participate.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• This role is ideal for individuals who thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems.
• Proven success working in a Client-facing capacity while playing a Team Lead role within a matrixed team framework. 
• You bring a minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience building high-performance, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tiered and distributed environment.
• Expertise in designing and implementing services in a variety of programming languages, e.g. Node.js and Golang.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Professional experience with RDBMSs and NoSQL Databases. Bonus if you have PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch experience.
• Successful deployment of production code at scale.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven track record of writing highly factorable and maintainable code which includes unit tests, readable code, and decent implementations of design patterns.
• Expertise with learning new technologies and familiarity with our tech stack: Jasmine Framework · JavaScript · Node.js · Jest.js GraphQL · Apollo GraphQL · Go (Programming Language) · PostgreSQL · Postgres · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Docker · Github
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related Technical field (solid knowledge of CS fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, algorithms, etc...)
• Experience and a desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong desire to work on the next generation of Artificial Intelligence applications.

BONUS POINTS IF 

• Development experience with Data and AI consulting services, system integrators or managed service providers.
• Technical acumen in B-to-B SaaS/PaaS, Cloud, and Enterprise Software.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence workflows.
• Understanding of online software (SaaS) services and technology-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI solutions and AI enablement across multiple industry verticals.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing AI tools and/or engines.

OUR CULTURE

• Loves learning & continuous growth; stays current on marketing trends
• Can juggle multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines with a positive attitude
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, small company environment
• Collaborative and always contributing value
• Driven to win as a team
• Remote first workplace
• Check us out!

Veritone is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and solutions. The company's proprietary operating system, aiWARE, orchestrates an expanding ecosystem of machine learning models to transform audio, video and other data sources into actionable intelligence. We love to continuously grow while staying ahead of trends and creating structure in an unstructured world. 

If you’ve made it this far and align with our goals, we look forward to reviewing your qualifications!

DISCLOSURE

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

(Colorado & California Only*): The posted annual salary range is from $163,000.00 to $205,000.00. This base pay is for illustrative purposes only and will be determined based on skills and experience comparable to the job requirements. This position may be eligible for additional compensation and benefits including but not limited to: incentive compensation; health benefits; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off; parental leave and benefits; and other employee perks and benefits.

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in California or Colorado.

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