Job description
Trellis is a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by top investors like General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures.
Our mission: make shopping for home and auto insurance faster, smarter, and easier for everyday Americans. Powered by ML and GenAI, we help people find better insurance — saving them time, money, and stress.
We’re fully remote, built for speed, and led by a third-time fintech founder with a track record of building public companies.
If you move fast, take ownership, and care about your craft, you’ll thrive 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 (aiming for 10x growth!) 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.
Trellis is a fantastic place to work
Join a talented, passionate team:
- Flat, collaborative, transparent culture; get in at the ground floor and be a true business partner
- Opportunities for growth and development within your role and all areas of the organization
- 75th-percentile (competitive!) compensation
- 100% remote work environment
- Quarterly, fun team bonding events
Trellis additionally offers competitive benefits:
- Unlimited vacation time
- 100% employer-paid Platinum-tier health insurance for employee, 65% for dependents
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Bonuses and equity opportunities
- Budget for home office equipment
