Staff Software Engineer, VenturaOS - Content Discovery & Search

The role

You will design, implement, and optimize content discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. You will partner with application teams to build scalable features and manage high-performance, low-latency search systems.

What you will do

• Partner with application teams to design, build, and scale content discovery and search features.
• Work on processing and understanding content to enhance personalization mechanisms.
• Build and manage high-performance, low-latency search systems.
• Ensure efficient indexing, fast queries, and relevant results.

Required qualifications

• Sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
• Understand engineering fundamentals and work from first principles to evaluate solutions.
• Understand modern data-intensive systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data processing, data indexing, and building ML inference and re-training frameworks.

Nice to have

• Experience with search systems such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query performance, ranking, relevance tuning, and search quality evaluation.
• Experience building recommendation and personalization systems, including candidate retrieval, ranking, and integrating model outputs into production services.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark and platforms such as Databricks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About the company

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Its technology helps advertisers reach audiences across the open internet.