[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @The Trade Desk

Role Description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend data pipelines for processing large-scale content catalog and metadata using distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark.

• Develop and optimize high-throughput data processing workflows capable of ingesting, transforming, and aggregating large-scale datasets with optimal performance and reliability.
• Design and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs to expose data services to internal platforms and downstream consumers.
• Architect and build data integration solutions that connect heterogeneous data sources and destinations across the platform, ensuring data consistency and availability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to integrate models and algorithms into production environments, including supporting feature engineering and model-serving pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for data pipelines to ensure reliability, performance, and high availability at scale.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms, including data modeling, indexing strategies, and query performance tuning across relational databases, NoSQL stores, and cloud-based data warehouses.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for backend and data infrastructure, partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and apply data engineering best practices including data quality validation, error handling, and recovery mechanisms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Three (3) years of experience with:
  • Software development in Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Building and deploying services on cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Two (2) years of experience with:
  • Designing and building data pipelines using distributed data processing frameworks, including Apache Spark.
  • Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and backend services.
  • Working with relational databases and NoSQL databases.
  • Data modeling and query performance optimization for large-scale datasets.

Requirements

• Salary: $206,086 - $302,200 / 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.