About the position
The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day. Our Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the backend infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. Whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle development software from inception to production
- Demonstrate a firm grasp of the entire software development lifecycle
- Drive complex changes involving multiple components
- Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring
- Collaborate with team members to deliver features
- Guide and review changes to product features in line with product roadmaps
- Implement and maintain product features
- Build components and processes that are regularly used by others
- Build execution plans incorporating user data, observations, and market insight
- Validate changes to ensure high quality product releases
- Work in a distributed system environment
- Understand the business objectives behind the code
- Understand system architecture fundamentals through self-directed learning
- Participate in and lead projects with a high level of technical ambiguity
- Contribute to development of comprehensive success criteria
- Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching
- Participate in hiring activities
- Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency
Requirements
- Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
- Able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Solid understanding of computer science and engineering
- Experience working with distributed systems
- Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala
- Knowledge of software development code editors: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider, and version control systems (Git, Perforce)
- 7+ years of software development engineering experience
- Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis)
- Experience building micro-services
- Knowledge of operating systems and cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka
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
- Employees can purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
