WHAT YOU’LL DO

IRIS.TV is seeking a Data Engineer specializing in Clojure to work closely with our engineering team which 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.

About IRIS.TV

IRIS.TV is the world's leading video data platform. Founded in 2013, our mission is to connect and activate video data from any source to power better consumer experiences and business outcomes.

We're bringing video-level contextual data, brand safety and suitability to market with CTV and OLV for the first time ever. This gives buyers much needed transparency into the context of what they are buying and also helps publishers better prepare for the deprecation of cookies and solve issues with identity and privacy.

At IRIS.TV we help our customers and partners maximize the value of their investment in video. Our privacy-first, neutral video data platform provides the leading media, data, advertising, and marketing companies with seamless on-boarding and activation of video data.

Operating at massive scale, we process billions of video views per day and our customers are the largest brands in the world. We’re in the business of improving people's lives by creating more valuable and enjoyable user experiences for our customers and partners. Great storytelling, journalism, and education are essential for every culture and video is the most important medium for distributing information.

We're growing our world class team and we'd like to meet you.

Our Company Values

Curious: demonstrates adaptive learning abilities and the ability to solve complex problems.
Kind and optimistic: high EQ, not avoiding hard work or problems, able to maintain a positive attitude and grit.
Excellent work ethic, a self-starter: embraces a get-it-done mentality and rolls up their sleeves.
Self-aware: understands their own strengths/challenges and how that fits into a team environment.
Integrity: strong moral principles to do the right thing for all parties.
Empathy: strong teamwork and problem solving abilities and the ability to see the other side.
Confident: they know how to disagree and challenge ideas with direct compassion.

THE DAY-TO-DAY

You will work closely with the Data Engineering team and the Data Science team, solving a wide variety of engineering challenges using Clojure and free software tools on AWS, working with high-availability distributed systems.

MUST HAVE

Strong creative problem-solver with a love of the craft
Industry experience with Clojure
Excellent written English communication
Self-directed, capable of making progress with little oversight

GREAT TO HAVE

Experience with distributed systems (e.g., microservices, fault‑tolerant architectures)
Proficiency in Kafka and Redis (for real-time streaming and in‑memory caching)
Hands-on with containerization and orchestration—Docker and Kubernetes
DevOps mindset, enabling deployment and automation of containerized workloads
Performance tuning expertise (profiling, benchmarking, latency optimization)
Familiarity with data science workflows, analytics pipelines, or ML support
Domain knowledge in video, MarTech, AdTech, and data connectivity

LIFE AT VIANT

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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.

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