Senior AI‑Driven Data Platforms Engineer

Viant Technology; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

fully paid health insurance

paid parental leave

unlimited PTO

Job summary

Viant Technology in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Potens team and evolve Magnus and Goliath, two internal platforms powering workflow orchestration and large-scale data exploration. This hands-on, full-stack role blends modernizing mature production systems with developing new AI-powered capabilities across Java, Go, and JavaScript, with BigQuery and GCP integrations.

You will own features end to end, solve complex production challenges, and contribute to producing

Qualifications

• Hands-on, full-stack engineer for modernizing production systems.
• Strong experience with Java and Go backend services.
• Proficient with browser-based JavaScript applications.
• Familiar with AI-powered capabilities and MCP.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and modernize Magnus Java applications, REST APIs, and Goliath’s JavaScript/jQuery frontend
• Develop backend capabilities using Java and Go
• Build production AI features and integrations using LLMs, tool calling, guardrails, evaluation, and MCP
• Integrate with BigQuery, MySQL, GCP services, and internal APIs
• Diagnose and resolve application, workflow, database, performance, and production issues
• Build automated tests and deliver reliable, production‑quality software
• Own projects end to end, from technical proposal and implementation through deployment and production support
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to sound engineering practices across the team

Skills

Java

Go

JavaScript

Python

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

GitHub Actions

BigQuery

MySQL

Job description

Viant Technology in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Potens team and evolve Magnus and Goliath, two internal platforms powering workflow orchestration and large-scale data exploration. This hands-on, full-stack role blends modernizing mature production systems with developing new AI-powered capabilities across Java, Go, and JavaScript, with BigQuery and GCP integrations.

You will own features end to end, solve complex production challenges, and contribute to producing