Staff Engineer, Content Discovery & Search

The Trade Desk; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Stock purchase plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Engineer to own end-to-end content discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. You will shape design, implementation, and optimization to deliver fast, relevant results across a large content catalog.

You’ll work with teams to scale features, improve personalization, and build high-performance search infrastructure using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch concepts, Spark pipelines, and ML-based ranking.

Qualifications

• Experience building content discovery and personalization systems.
• Strong data-intensive system design and distributed processing experience.
• Experience with search systems like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
• Ability to drive end-to-end software projects across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize content discovery and search systems.
• Scale features for performance, relevancy, and large catalogs.
• Collaborate with teams to improve personalization and ranking.

Skills

Content discovery

Personalization

Search systems

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Distributed data processing

Spark

Databricks

ML inference

Model retraining

Tools

Spark

Databricks

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Engineer to own end-to-end content discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. You will shape design, implementation, and optimization to deliver fast, relevant results across a large content catalog.

You’ll work with teams to scale features, improve personalization, and build high-performance search infrastructure using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch concepts, Spark pipelines, and ML-based ranking.