WHAT YOU’LL DO
Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP) is building the future of AI-powered, identity-driven advertising across CTV and the open internet — and TVision plays a critical role in that ecosystem by delivering next-generation audience measurement through real-world, person-level viewing insights. Using a combination of computer vision, audio content recognition, network traffic analysis, and large-scale behavioral data collection, TVision measures what consumers watch, how they engage, and how advertising performs across modern streaming and television environments.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help build the distributed systems and data infrastructure that power TVision’s measurement platform. You’ll develop scalable backend services, cloud-native data pipelines, and processing frameworks that enable reliable device telemetry, content recognition, and large-scale analytics. Working closely with data science, analytics, and platform engineering teams, you’ll help transform billions of seconds of raw viewing data into actionable insights that drive innovation across Viant’s CTV and advertising technology platforms.
THE DAY-TO-DAY
- Build and maintain web services that support configuration, monitoring, and data ingestion for TVision's in-home measurement devices.
- Build and maintain data pipelines to support the recognition and analysis of content captured by our devices.
- Work with data science and analytics staff to build clean, well-designed tools and libraries for our back-end data processes, making best practices in software engineering and database performance accessible to the entire team.
- Ensure the quality, security, and timeliness of our data deliveries by thorough testing, careful code review, and robust operational monitoring.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- 8+ years of experience building backend services and distributed data systems.
- Experience with Python and modern Python engineering best practices.
- Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines at scale.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD workflows.
- Strong experience with cloud-hosted, containerized web service architectures and modern deployment patterns.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, data lake technologies, and performance optimization best practices.
- Experience with modern big data processing frameworks such as Spark, Databricks, Flink, or similar technologies.
- Comfort collaborating with quantitative and data science teams to optimize computational workflows and data processing efficiency.
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.
- 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.
Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP) is an exclusively buy-side, AI-powered advertising platform purpose-built for CTV. Viant uniquely combines proprietary content intelligence, household-level identity resolution, and person-level attention signals to connect advertisers with real customers and drive measurable outcomes across the open internet. Through its award-winning AI solutions, Viant is building the future of autonomous advertising, where AI doesn't just assist the campaign, it delivers real results. Learn more at viantinc.com.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
- 8+ years of experience building backend services and distributed data systems
- Experience with Python and modern Python engineering best practices
- Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines at scale
- Experience with AWS infrastructure and DevOps tooling
- Strong experience with cloud-hosted, containerized web service architectures
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and performance optimization best practices
- Experience with modern big data processing frameworks such as Spark or Flink
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.
