Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, Real-Time Bidding

Job Description

Job Description

Trellis is a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures. We're reimagining how people shop for home and auto insurance, using smart technology to make something historically painful feel refreshingly easy.

Every day, we help people save time, money, and unnecessary headaches. Behind the scenes, our fully remote team moves fast, owns their craft, and builds products that genuinely make life better.

Led by a three-time fintech founder with a proven track record of going big, we're building something special, and we're just getting started.

If you're hungry to make an impact and love solving complex problems with a scrappy crew, you'll love it here.

About the Role

Trellis is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help us scale our real time bidding services. You'll join a nimble and driven team where your contributions will shape the future of our product, architecture, and company.

Your primary focus will be designing, implementing, and operating robust, high-throughput distributed services – including ML serving infrastructure – using Python, Kubernetes, and core GCP managed services like GKE, Pub / Sub, Dataflow, and BigQuery. If you thrive on solving complex scaling problems and have deep experience building reliable cloud-native systems, join our fast-paced team and define the future of our technology.

This is a fully remote position, based in the US or Canada, and will report directly into the Head of RTB, Thomas Boquet.

We believe in paying competitively for great work. As a remote team, we set our salaries at the 75th percentile of national market data in our industry. You can count on your pay being in line with (or above) the market. For this role, the base salary range is $205,000-$215,000. We review compensation twice a year to make sure we're staying competitive and rewarding our team's contributions.

What You'll Do

• Evolve our real time bidding services, including the machine learning serving services and infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
• Design and maintain high-throughput distributed systems that gracefully handle large-scale data pipelines.
• Own and operate integrations with a growing list of external partners—laying the foundation for long-term growth.
• Be a critical voice in technical strategy, architecture decisions, and product direction.
• Stay fast and focused, delivering impact through smart choices.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes product, data, and fellow engineers.

What You'll Need

Why Trellis? Because life's too short for boring jobs.

We're a team of builders, dreamers, and doers reshaping an industry that touches every household in America. At Trellis, you'll have real ownership, meaningful impact, and the chance to grow alongside a company that's scaling fast.

Here's what makes Trellis an incredible place to build your career :

✨ A flat, transparent culture where your voice actually matters

🚀 Ground-floor opportunity with room to stretch and grow

💰 Compensation at the 75th+ percentile

🏡 100% remote... work from wherever you do your best thinking (In the US or Canada, that is)

🎉 Quarterly team events that keep our fully remote culture connected and fun

And yes, the perks are pretty great too :

🌴 Flexible vacation (seriously, we want you to take it)

🩺 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees (65% for dependents)

💻 Home office budget to set up your perfect workspace

💸 Automatic 401(k) contribution, FSAs, bonuses, and equity opportunities to invest in your future

👉 If you're looking for a place where you can do the best work of your career, while building something that actually matters, we'd love to meet you.