The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 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.
What You'll Do
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Act as a technical expert and advisor to more junior Systems Operations Engineers
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At an escalated tier, monitor the state of platform services and stability via telemetry and alerts; triage issues, escalate to engineering teams as needed
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Proactively update and improve Systems Operations documentation and runbooks
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Increase the effectiveness of the incident response process by defining and measuring relevant metrics
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There may be periodic weekend coverage requirements
Who We are Looking For
The Systems Operations Engineer will either possess or be excited to learn a number of skills...
Technical Proficiency:
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Understanding of large-scale distributed system architectures (e.g., databases, web services, application services).
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Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios).
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Ability to configure and fine-tune alerts.
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Proficiency or ability to learn programming languages including SQL, Python, C# to automate repetitive tasks.
Who We Are
At The Trade Desk, we recognize that a seamless customer experience is driven by operational excellence. In pursuit of constantly improving the reliability of our platform, we have established a global Systems Operations team. This team's core mission is to vigilantly monitor The Trade Desk platform services, refine our incident response methodologies, and guarantee a robust and highly-available customer experience. If you're passionate about ensuring system reliability, process improvement, and making an essential customer impact, we invite you to play a critical role in this next evolution of our on-call experience.
Incident Management and Troubleshooting:
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Ability to prioritize and manage incidents based on severity, with a focus on customer impact.
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Ability to remain calm under pressure and quickly diagnose issues.
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Understanding of system logs, metrics, telemetry.
Communication Skills:
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Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders during an incident.
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Clear and concise documentation skills.
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Ability to maintain and update troubleshooting guides (TSGs) and operational documentation.
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Ability to translate complex technical issues and platform outages to non-technical stakeholders.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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