[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @The Trade Desk

Role Description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to:

• Design and implement scalable software components and infrastructure within internal developer platforms and distributed systems to enhance engineering productivity and reliability.
• Optimize and refactor existing tooling, services, and workflows to reduce developer friction and improve system performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability across engineering teams.
• Conduct comprehensive technical design and code reviews for high-impact systems, ensuring architectural alignment, adherence to secure coding practices, and performance efficiency.
• Serve as a technical advisor to guide software design patterns and best practices across teams.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives by scoping and executing complex projects that span multiple services, teams, and domains, including dependency resolution, phased rollouts, and backward compatibility.
• Develop reusable frameworks and internal APIs to enable standardized integration and extensibility across the engineering organization.
• Own shared libraries or SDKs used by multiple services and teams.
• Use telemetry, logs, and operational data to identify bottlenecks, quantify the impact of engineering investments, and drive decisions around prioritization and architectural improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or related role OR Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Must have four (4) years of experience with:
  • REST APIs or gRPC
  • One of: Python, Java, C#, Javascript, or C++
  • Rational Databases, SQL
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes and Docker containers
  • S3 or Azure Blob Storage
• Must have two (2) years of experience with Grafana, Prometheus or similar.

Requirements

• Salary: $189,592 - $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.