[Hiring] Lead Senior Software Engineer @The Trade Desk

Role Description

Design, maintain, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable build and deployment processes.

• Build and maintain internal tools (CLIs, dashboards, bots) that automate workflows and improve developer productivity.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems for build health, test reliability, and performance regressions using tools like Prometheus or Grafana.
• Maintain and improve local development environments and onboarding processes to ensure consistency and ease of use.
• Create and maintain internal documentation and lead training sessions to educate developers on tools, systems, and workflows.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, and security teams to gather feedback and continuously improve developer experience and tooling.
• Research, evaluate, and pilot new technologies and workflows that enhance developer productivity and code quality.
• Manage junior engineers on technical work, give regular feedback and perform semi-annual reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Six (6) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Four (4) years of experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL.
• Four (4) years of experience with design patterns and software architecture design patterns; and building micro-services.
• Three (3) years of experience managing self-hosted GitLab and GitLab runners.
• Two (2) years of experience with Kubernetes; cloud computing; and managing multiple CI systems and migrating CI to GitLab.
• One (1) year of experience mentoring junior software engineers.

Requirements

• Salary: $212,202 - $274,700/year.

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.