United States onlyTrellis 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
CA and US only
