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Staff Software Engineer, VenturaOS - Content Discovery & Search

The Trade Desk · Bellevue · On-site

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About The Trade Desk

From brand building to performance marketing, our omnichannel platform was built with one goal: helping you reach yours.

About the role

Our Staff Engineers are end-to-end owners. As a member of Content Discovery and Search team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of content discovery and search systems within Ventura TV OS cloud services. Your work will directly impact how users discover and interact with content across the platform, ensuring a seamless, high-quality experience. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience with search systems such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query performance, ranking, relevance tuning, and search quality evaluation, is desirable
  • Experience building recommendation and personalization systems, including candidate retrieval, ranking, and integrating model outputs into production services, is desirable
More about this role

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.

Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

We're a small, high-impact team building a next-generation TV operating system. Our flexible structure gives engineers direct influence over product direction—an opportunity rarely found in larger...

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