Senior Software Engineer

What we do:

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.

As part of the Planning and Forecasting team, you'll work with petabyte-scale data to uncover actionable insights and provide strategic recommendations to our clients—some of the most influential marketing professionals at globally recognized brands. Your work will directly shape their advertising strategies and contribute to the success of The Trade Desk’s bottom line.

What you’ll do:

You will work with engineer, data scientists on microservice based architecture, large scale databases, ML pipelines, data processing - automation, pipelines, quality, warehousing, governance, model deployments and experimentation configuration to name a few. · You will solve petabyte-scale data challenges across large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world.

Senior Engineers contribute to more than our product – they build up our team. Through a combination of mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams, they make others better and raise the bar for those around them.

Our Senior Software Engineers are end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data products for our clients.

Who you are:

You have experience with high level languages such as C#, Java, Python, Scala

You have experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers. You are a broadly skilled engineer, accustomed to developing data processing pipelines.

You have experience in building microservice architecture from ground up, designing and developing software interfaces/APIs to enable communication between various software modules, subsystems, or external systems.

You have experience working with data scientists and data engineers and understand & empathize with their needs and comfort levels.

You can think through model lifecycles end to end. These covers evaluating model feasibility - both runtime performance and from an accuracy POV; thinking of validation up front and challenging if the validation processes are sound; and model pipeline from training to deployments to setting up experiments.

You have worked with data modeling, configured AB test experimentation, and have experience working in technologies like SQL, ETL, and technologies like Spark, Airflow, SQL, data warehousing, etc... Kubernetes & docker experience will be big plus point.

You have a product-focused mindset. You have the passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and push forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.

You work with confidence and without ego. Our engineers have deep knowledge and exercise a high degree of leadership in their daily work. You have strong opinions that are weakly held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right. You are also adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates.

You value, seek out, and foster diversity. We are a global team from many diverse backgrounds, with different experiences and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be skilled at finding and building from common ground.

You are a creative thinker, not bound by “the way things have always been done”.

You have a sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large, impactful engineering projects. You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the ‘why’ behind what you are doing. · You understand engineering fundamentals. On our scale, many off-the-shelf techniques and existing technologies (open source and enterprise) do not work. You can work from first principles to evaluate solutions