Staff Software Engineer, Content Discovery & Search

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

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Engineer for Content Discovery and Search to own design, implementation, and optimization of discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. You will influence product direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver personalized, high-quality content experiences.

You will work with distributed data processing, ML inference, and production-grade search pipelines, contributing to scalable indexing, ranking, and relevance.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership of content discovery and search systems.
• Experience with distributed data processing, indexing, and ML inference frameworks.
• Familiarity with search systems like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and evaluating ranking quality.

Responsibilities

• Partner with application teams to design, build, and scale content discovery and search features with strong performance and relevancy.
• Work on processing and understanding content to improve personalization and user experience.
• Build and manage high-performance, low-latency search systems for large content catalogs, with efficient indexing and fast queries.

Skills

Content discovery

Personalization

Distributed data processing

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Apache Spark

Databricks

ML inference

Ranking & relevance

Tools

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Apache Spark

Databricks

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Engineer for Content Discovery and Search to own design, implementation, and optimization of discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. You will influence product direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver personalized, high-quality content experiences.

You will work with distributed data processing, ML inference, and production-grade search pipelines, contributing to scalable indexing, ranking, and relevance.