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Principal Software Engineer

Viant

Location:
United States, Irvine ▼
Los Angeles

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

200000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Viant’s customers use the Demand Side Platform (DSP) to set up, run and monitor ad campaigns. The platform team owns a complex set of backend services and the frontend UI that make up the DSP. These services are deployed in a distributed, multi-region, cloud-based infrastructure and use the latest technologies to handle the immensely complicated functionality that is part of any Demand Side Platform (DSP) such as Viant DSP. You will serve as the technical lead working with a team of engineers to oversee the design and implementation of these interconnected services, ensuring that the system evolves to keep pace with the speed, scale and agility that modern day systems are expected to support. You will have the opportunity to mentor team members and contribute towards the success of Viant’s products. Primarily supporting Viant DSP, you will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Technical operations teams on spec creation and providing production support.

Job Responsibility:

Determine a long-term technical vision and scope of future projects, while continuously developing and reviewing existing projects
Lead end-to-end product development efforts for Viant DSP’s suite of products
Own & contribute to major features & areas of the products
Work closely with cross-functional teams internally as well as customers externally to understand pain points, underserved needs, and identify opportunities
Mentor engineers who thrive working in an innovative, user-focused, fast paced environment
Drive initiatives to reduce operational load, and build operationally sustainable products

Requirements:

Must have experience in the AdTech domain OR possess strong proficiency in the Go programming language
12+ years of professional experience in the software industry
Experience with web services, microservices, or other SOA
Relational database experience, such as MySQL, Postgres, or Oracle, and experience with complex SQL

Nice to have:

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
Knowledge of modern programming languages, especially Java and Go
Knowledge of cloud based technologies, especially AWS, Azure or GCP
Hands on experience designing, building and delivering high quality scalable, operationally sustainable software
Ad tech industry experience is a plus
NoSQL experience is a plus

What we offer:

fully paid health insurance
paid parental leave
unlimited PTO

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 13, 2025

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