Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, Real-Time Bidding

Trellis; Poland; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing startup is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their distributed systems team. This fully remote position focuses on scaling real time bidding services, using Python and GCP technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive backend experience and a strong understanding of cloud-native systems. Trellis offers a transparent culture, flexible vacation, and a home office budget, making it an excellent opportunity for impactful work.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Home office budget

Quarterly team events

Wellness events

Automatic 401(k) contribution

Qualifications

• 7-12+ years of engineering experience focused on backend or infrastructure systems.
• Expertise in utilizing GCP managed services for reliable system deployment.
• Ability to optimize tech stack for performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Evolve real time bidding services including ML infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize our Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.
• Design and maintain high-throughput distributed systems.

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, Real-Time Bidding

Remote

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.

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

• 7-12+ years of engineering experience, with a majority of your time focused on backend or infrastructure systems.
• Expertise in utilizing GCP managed services to effectively deploy, monitor, manage, and scale reliable systems, directly contributing to product improvements and business objectives.
• A “get it done” mindset with the ability to balance speed, performance, and scalability.
• The ability to optimize the tech stack functionally, minimize the required maintenance and maximize value discovery.
• Strong knowledge of architecting for resilience and high availability within cloud infrastructure.

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)
• Home office budget to set up your perfect workspace
• Wellness events throughout the year, because we believe in investing in the full human, not just the employee
• 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected status and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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