Trellis

Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Bidding

Trellis

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other engineers to deliver impactful solutions.
  • Integrate services and product features with databases (Cloud SQL, Redis) and messaging queues (Pub/Sub).
  • Contribute to the development of our MLOps tools for ML models.
  • Build and optimize large-scale data processing pipelines for feature extraction and data transformation using BigQuery and Dataflow.
  • Train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning models on Vertex AI to improve bidding performance.
  • Stay fast and focused, balancing speed, performance, and scalability to deliver impact.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, demonstrating progressive growth and significant hands-on expertise in backend systems development and machine learning engineering
  • Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with FastAPI is a plus.
  • Deep understanding and practical experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Exposure to the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring in production.
  • Experience with MLOps principles and practices.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • A “get it done” mindset with the ability to make pragmatic decisions balancing speed, performance, technical debt, and scalability.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
  • Flexible vacation (yes, *actually* flexible)
  • 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees
  • Home office budget to create your perfect setup
  • Wellness programming, because balance matters
  • 401(k) and HSA contributions, FSAs, bonuses & equity opportunities
  • Paid parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonFastAPIMLOpsdata preprocessingfeature engineeringmodel trainingmodel evaluationmodel deploymentmodel monitoringbackend systems development
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationpragmatic decision-makingget it done mindset