Principal Backend Engineer

VideoAmp is on a mission to create the best employee and workplace experience where people can bring their whole self to work everyday.  We believe that accomplishing something great requires a special group of people who work hard, drive results and have a blast while doing it - people who challenge the status quo and embody our values.  People who say “I’ll find a way” instead of saying “it can’t be done.”

At VideoAmp, we believe in challenging advertising paradigms to maximize value for clients. We do this by enabling companies to execute on business outcomes across their media investment instead of more traditional media metrics. VideoAmp is the software and data solutions company powering the convergence of linear TV and digital video advertising. Our solutions connect linear TV viewership with addressable data assets to benefit the marketing and media industries. This enables marketers and content owners to holistically plan, transact, and measure deduplicated audiences across digital video, OTT, connected and linear TV advertising.

Role & Responsibilities 

United States, Remote

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Audiences team, you’ll be building the APIs that empower our clients to create and manage the most effective media audiences for driving efficient outcomes while planning, activating, and measuring their advertising campaigns on the VideoAmp platform in a user-friendly and scalable way. Your work will directly impact how major brands and publishers value, transact, and measure television and digital advertising.

You will work with our Data Science, Identity, Measurement, and Engineering Services teams to ensure that our methodologies are rigorous and best-in-class, our data pipelines are correct and reliable, and our APIs are responsive and highly available. The successful candidate will be a strong coder and excellent problem solver who prefers learning by doing.

Technologies We Use: Go, Python, gRPC, Postgres, Snowflake, Airflow, Temporal, Bazel, AWS, Kubernetes

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in web application development and an eagerness to learn new skills
• Fluency with one or more mainstream strongly-typed, compiled programming languages such as Go, Java, C#, or C++
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with a version control system like GitHub including code review processes
• Experience collaborating with peers across the entire range of development activities such as distilling engineering designs from product requirements, development of work plans, building consensus, implementation, testing, productization, monitoring, and maintenance
• B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, Math, or similarly technical field preferred

Additional Preferred Experience

• Experience developing RESTful, resource-oriented APIs as distributed systems using gRPC and Go
• Experience building large scale data processing pipelines using SQL or Spark with a data warehousing product like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Experience with monorepo development strategies and the Bazel build system
• Experience with cloud deployment of distributed systems on AWS using Kubernetes
• Experience working on a distributed team using asynchronous communication and project management strategies
• Experience working with LLM projects or products 

What We Offer

This position has a minimum salary of $150,000- $170,000 + Equity + Benefits. The actual compensation offer will be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, and experience.

• Discretionary and flexible paid time off
• In addition to standard US holidays off, VideoAmp employees receive a full week off for Summer Break and another full week off for Winter Break
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents - including multiple options fully covered by VideoAmp
• Professional and personal support with licensed therapists and career coaches
• Unlimited financial wellness sessions with Origin financial advisors
• 401k Plan
• Pre-Tax Savings Plans, HSA & FSA
• $10,000 towards services and treatments that support family planning
• Cell Phone Reimbursement
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave for All Family Additions

We are on a collective mission to bring equity and transparency into media measurement, and that begins with an honest, inclusive culture. At VideoAmp, we empower our team to thrive through collaboration, mentorship, and innovation. If you're passionate about all things data and tech, and have extensive knowledge and curiosity around the digital media space, we’d love to hear from you.

Above all, if you're eager to influence and support the revolutionary goals of a dynamic, cross-functional team -  join us and make an impact!

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