
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