Teams at Viant Technology

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and leading high-volume, low-latency ad-serving runtime systems. The role focuses on scalability, performance, fault tolerance, distributed systems, bid optimization, self-healing architecture, and full software lifecycle ownership. Responsibilities include technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, bug triage, root-cause analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and guiding projects involving multiple engineers.

Leads the end-to-end design, deployment, and performance of real-time ML prediction and bid-optimization systems for programmatic advertising. Provides hands-on technical leadership to applied scientists and ML engineers, formulates optimization problems, manages production ML challenges such as latency, delayed feedback, drift, and retraining, and aligns technical roadmaps with business priorities.

Modernize and maintain Magnus and Goliath platforms across Java, Go, and JavaScript. Build AI-powered features (LLMs, tool-calling), integrate BigQuery, GCP, MySQL and internal APIs, diagnose production issues, write automated tests, and own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and support.