The Role
The Data Engineer will solve engineering challenges using Clojure, collaborate with teams on distributed systems, and handle big data and analytics.
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WHAT YOU’LL DO
Viant is looking for a highly motivated Data Engineer, IRIS.TV specializing in Clojure to work closely with our engineering team. Our engineering team is headquartered in Los Angeles and geographically distributed around the world. This is an exciting opportunity to work with big data, analytics, and real-time distributed systems in a fast-paced environment. The team leverages open source technologies and builds with hand tools, setting the bar high for a very robust and flexible data processing architecture for the company.
THE DAY-TO-DAY
- Design and build data processing pipelines and APIs with the data engineering team
- Track and optimize key performance metrics with the data science team
- Solve a wide variety of engineering challenges using Clojure and free software tools on AWS
- Work with high-availability distributed systems
- Measure your own code in production and stay one step ahead of scaling needs
GREAT TO HAVE
- Experience with Clojure and distributed systems (e.g., microservices, fault-tolerant architectures)
- Proficiency with Kafka, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solver with a DevOps mindset and ability to work independently
- Skilled in performance tuning (profiling, benchmarking, latency optimization)
- Familiarity with data workflows (analytics, ML support) and domain knowledge in video, MarTech, or AdTech
WHO WE ARE
- Viant® (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leading advertising software company that enables marketers to plan, execute and measure omnichannel ad campaigns through a cloud-based platform. Viant’s self-service Demand Side Platform, Adelphic®, powers programmatic advertising across Connected TV, Linear TV, mobile, desktop, audio, gaming and digital out-of-home channels. In 2022, Viant was recognized as a Leader in the DSP category, earned Great Place to Work® certification and Co-Founders Tim and Chris Vanderhook were named EY Entrepreneurs of the Year. To learn more, please visit viantinc.com.IRIS.TV is the world’s leading video data platform.
- Founded in 2013, IRIS.TV helps customers and partners maximize the value of their investment by bringing video-level contextual, emotional, and brand safety data to market to target and measure streaming campaigns. This technology is built off our core technology, the IRIS_ID, and it provides buyers and sellers of streaming advertising transparency into what content their ads are being placed against. Our technology helps publishers make more money, using privacy first data, while improving ad campaign performance for advertisers. Operating at massive scale, we process tens-of-billions of video views and ad requests per day. Our customers range from the largest brands in the world to new innovative companies investing in CTV advertising for the first time. To learn more, please visit iris.tv
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!
- Some our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. View a list of our benefits here.
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About Viant
Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leader in CTV and AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. Viant’s omnichannel platform built for CTV allows marketers to plan, execute and measure their campaigns with unmatched precision and efficiency. With the launch of ViantAI, Viant is building the future of fully autonomous advertising solutions, empowering advertisers to achieve their boldest goals. Viant was recently awarded Best AI-Powered Advertising Solution and Best Demand-Side Platform by MarTech Breakthrough, Great Place to Work® certification and received the Business Intelligence Group’s AI Excellence Award. Learn more at viantinc.com.
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 (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, religious creed, 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. Viant also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
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Top Skills
AWS
Clojure
Docker
Kafka
Kubernetes
Redis
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The Company
What We Do
Viant® is a publicly traded (Nasdaq: DSP) people-based advertising software company that enables ad buyers to plan, create, execute, and measure their omnichannel digital advertising investments. Its self-service DSP for omnichannel advertising, Adelphic®, provides the ability to execute programmatic advertising campaigns across TV, mobile, desktop, audio, digital out-of-home, and is the only DSP with IPv6 support for CTV environments. Viant’s proprietary, first-party data is linked to 115 million households, over 1 billion connected devices, and is combined with access to more than 280,000 audience attributes from more than 70 people-based data partners to enable scaled and accurate audience targeting and attribution. Viant is an Inc. Best Places to Work award winner and Adelphic is featured on AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list.
