Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Los Angeles, CA
Hybrid
130K-170K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Big Data • Digital Media • Marketing Tech • Sales • Software • Data Privacy
Optimizing brand marketing to business outcomes.
The Role
Build and scale production-grade APIs for VideoAmp, ensuring performance, security, and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Responsibilities

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

As a Backend Engineer on our API Engineering team, you will build and scale the APIs that power the VideoAmp platform - the core services that enable clients to plan media, activate campaigns, and measure deduplicated audiences across linear and digital environments.

You’ll focus on production-caliber API engineering: building highly performant, secure, and reliable services, backed by modern orchestration, observability, and data systems. Your work directly impacts how major brands and publishers value, transact, and measure advertising, and you’ll collaborate closely with teams across Data Science, Measurement, Product, and Engineering Services.

We’re looking for someone who is a self-starter, detail-minded, collaborative, and thrives in a high-ownership environment.

  • Comfortable and competent in Agentic AI development tools such as Claude Code, CoPilot.
  • Design, test, build, and scale production-grade APIs using Go (with occasional Python/JavaScript).
  • Improve and maintain core API services that power large-scale planning and measurement workflows.
  • Implement and optimize process orchestration using Temporal and Airflow.
  • Ensure API resiliency, observability, and performance through rigorous monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate product requirements into architectural designs and execution plans.
  • Contribute to team-wide best practices across API design, security, testing, and service reliability.
  • Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and collaborative planning sessions.
  • Support continuous improvement through thoughtful documentation, automation, and consensus-driven decision making.
Qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience in backend or web application development.
  • Strong programming skills with Go, and experience with Python or JavaScript a plus.
  • Deep experience building scalable, secure, and reliable production APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Snowflake.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to distill technical requirements, build consensus, and drive work from design → implementation → monitoring.
  • A self-starter who is detail-oriented, results-driven, and prefers collaboration over top-down leadership styles.
  • Experience in Ad Tech, particularly in planning, audience measurement, or viewership data greatly preferred.
Technologies We Use
  • Go (primary)
  • Python & JavaScript
  • gRPC
  • PostgreSQL
  • Snowflake
  • Airflow, Temporal
  • Bazel
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes

What We Offer

This position has a minimum salary of $130,000.00 - $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 also partake in week long Summer and Winter Breaks
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents - including multiple options fully covered by VideoAmp
  • Unlimited financial wellness sessions with Origin financial advisors
  • 401k Plan
  • HSA & FSA
  • Commuter Benefits
  • 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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Top Skills

Airflow
AWS
Bazel
Go
Grpc
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Snowflake
Temporal
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The Company
Boulder, CO
350 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

We believe every human on the planet should have the option of free access to the world’s information and content. In many cases this belief is powered by a three way value exchange between a publisher producing free content, a consumer consuming it and an advertiser paying the publisher for the chance to connect with its audience.

The underpinning of this value exchange relies on having an independent auditing, measurement and optimization layer to power the transaction between the advertiser and publisher.


Today the industry standard tools for advertising and media measurement and optimization are usually designed where increased personalization, higher advertising return on investment and increased publisher revenues often comes with negative trade off for consumer privacy or security risks of leaking private data. We envision a world where this doesn't have to be the case - a world where consumer privacy, security, and governance are incorporated into the fabric of the codebase while enabling the necessary business use-cases to effectively keep the world’s information and content free for everyone.


VideoAmp’s mission is to create software and data solutions to enable advertisers to accurately measure and optimize their entire portfolio of linear TV, OTT, digital and walled garden investments while empowering publishers to effectively align and monetize their audiences with the advertiser’s desired outcome in a consumer-first privacy paradigm.

Why Work With Us

These are our values. Working here you can expect the following:
Unlimited paid time off each year
Company-sponsored health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents
Pet Insurance Savings
Work from home set up provided
401k Plan
A progressive approach to paid parental leave
Partner with DoorDash to provide a DashPass

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