Staff Software Engineer - Ad Serving

Location: Irvine, California, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States

Department: Engineering

WHAT YOU’LL DO

THE DAY-TO-DAY

• Drive the development and continuous improvement of existing projects while shaping the vision and scope of future initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design, build, and refine a highly reliable, highly available, low-latency runtime platform.
• Own and provide technical leadership for multiple subsystems of the runtime platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Oversee and guide all phases of the software development lifecycle, from design to deployment, with a focus on delivering high-impact solutions.

MUST HAVE

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

GREAT TO HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Proficiency in GoLang
• Expertise in designing, building, and delivering high-quality, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems, including developing detailed design specifications.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server), including writing SQL.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies, especially AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) and GCP.
• Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and low-latency application development.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve project issues effectively and in a timely manner.
• Experience in the AdTech domain is preferred.

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 and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. 

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