Who we are:
The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a
better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent
advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates
at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more
valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy,
and collaboration.
We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to
The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where
everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to
join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make
a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see
why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small-
to medium-sized workplaces globally.
What we do:
At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the platform with a focus on
quality at scale. This means whether we are building parts of our
client-facing applications, distributed backend services, 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 all day, every day serving global traffic. We built a
distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad
range of technologies. Our back-end developers work on finding solutions to
algorithmic, optimization and scale challenges in everything we do.
We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences and
perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are
different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to
value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.
What you will do:
Our Senior/Staff Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who have the
opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and
delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders.
Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:
You will be part of the team responsible for building the Experimentation
platform (A/B testing) for the company.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather experimentation requirements
and develop scalable solutions iteratively.
Lead the design for the Experimentation Platform including the integration
with various business-critical applications.
Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on trustworthiness
of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams and
platform reliability
Engineer sophisticated data pipelines using Airflow, and Databricks, with
focus on performance, costs and data integrity.
Drive the development of advanced statistical techniques to reduce the
experiment cycle times and maintain trust in experiment data.
Drive complex changes involving multiple components and complex systems run by
other software engineers
We are a global team with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your
own and be well-
versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster
invisible and visible
dimensions of diversity.
Who you are:
Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that
well, too). Wetake pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous
givers, scrappy problem solvers,and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do
not have to meet all the requirements below, butwe believe that people who
meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding inthis role:
You have 5+ years of software development engineering experience.
Proficiency with a modern language such as C# or Java or Golang or Python
You have a Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or relevant
engineering-related field or equivalent experience. Not everyone has the same
level of
access to opportunities. What is most important to us is what and how you can
contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of
education you
You have experience in leading and completing projects with a high degree of
technical ambiguity.
You will work with petabyte-scale data challenges, large-scale distributed
systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers
around the world, machine learning, and advanced visualizations - to name
a few
You will work with data processing pipelines, ML pipelines, data
governance, data visualization, data quality, data privacy, data warehousing.
You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas:
Understanding of the basics of A/B testing, experimentation, feature
rollout, and dynamic configuration.
Experience building or using A/B testing platforms as well as building
analytics tools or data products.
Advise data scientists, product managers and engineers across the company on
experimental design and adoption of experimentation platform.
A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working
at The TradeDesk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you
to know every technologywe use when you start. What we care about is that you
can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum
tools for the job.What you know is less important than how well you learn and
innovate. We are not seeking engineers who know all the answers; we need
engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and find answers to
the questions yet to be asked.
CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In
accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the
range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base
compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on
non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills,
abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade
Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants,
