Lead Staff Software Engineer - Developer Platform - The Trade Desk

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.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

What we do:

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.

What you will do:

Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:

• Build new features and components in our developer tools, processes, and services
• Improve existing features and components to increase efficiency across our engineering organization
• Review code from your peers and grow others through example, mentorship, and teaching
• Drive complex changes involving multiple components
• Build components and processes that are used by other engineers across the organization
• Leverage data to analyze opportunities and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency
• We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
• To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.

Who you are:

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

• You care deeply about improving developer experience, tools, and engineering
  processes
• You drive innovative solutions while being sensitive to the current needs and realities of
  your fellow engineers
• You have 7+ years of software development, engineering experience
• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in computer science or relevant
  engineering-related field or equivalent experience. Not everyone has the same level of
  access to opportunities. What is most important to us is what and how you can
  contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you
• You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas:
  • Proficiency with a modern language such as C# or Java
  • Experience working in large codebases, organizing and refactoring
  • Experience with configuration management
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment
  • Experience with configuration and management in cloud / virtualization environments (AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, et al)

A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start.

What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We are not seeking engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and find answers to the questions yet to be asked.

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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