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:
The ML Ops team at The Trade Desk is dedicated to empowering our data
scientists and data engineers by building the infrastructure and tools they
need to innovate with AI and seamlessly transition machine learning models
from research to production. Our mission is to accelerate this journey while
upholding the highest standards of safety, scalability, and quality.
We're developing a robust platform that provides standardized tools and
frameworks across the entire machine learning lifecycle, including:
Enabling cross-team feature sharing
Simplifying model deployment, monitoring, and experimentation
Reducing friction in building and productionizing models end-to-end
Our goal is to give teams the autonomy to take their models from idea to
impact-faster and more reliably than ever before.
About the Role:
Senior Software Engineers on the ML Ops team at The Trade Desk are end-to-end
owners
You'll play a critical role in designing, building, and delivering the
infrastructure and tools that empower data scientists and machine learning
engineers to take models from research to production-safely, quickly, and
at sc
Our ML Ops team tackles a wide range of challenges, including:
Building scalable systems to support feature engineering, model training,
and inference
Creating standardized frameworks for model deployment, monitoring, and
versioning
Developing internal platforms that reduce friction and increase velocity for
ML teams
Ensuring high reliability and performance across both cloud and physical data
centers
The unique part of the role depending on your interests and expertise, you
might lead initiatives involving container orchestration, CI/CD for ML
workflows, model serving, data processing, observability tooling for
models in production, or cross-team data pipelines for shared feature
stores. But your impact won't stop at code.
As a senior engineer, you'll also shape our team through mentorship,
cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership. You'll raise the
bar not only for infrastructure and systems-but also for the people around
you.
Who We Are Looking For:
A strong collaborator. You're a clear communicator who partners effectively
with data scientists and engineers to identify and eliminate friction in the
ML workflow.
Efficiency-minded. You're passionate about building tools and systems that
empower others-improving the productivity of data scientists and data
engineers across the organization.
Technically versatile. You have experience working with large-scale data
systems-hands-on experience with Spark or distributed data pipelines is a
plus.
ML-aware. While you don't need to be a model builder, familiarity with ML
modeling and deployment concepts is a bonus.
A proven leader. You've led diverse teams of engineers and driven impactful
projects end-to-end, showing initiative beyond your immediate scope.
A technical driver. You own projects from planning through implementation. You
write production-grade code, lead architecture discussions, and conduct
thoughtful code reviews.
A principled engineer. You understand the fundamentals and adapt tools and
techniques from first principles-especially when off-the-shelf solutions
don't scale.
Comfortable across the stack. You've built always-on systems, services,
and infrastructure-spanning backend systems, APIs, and data workflows.
Product-oriented. You care about impact. You seek to understand the "why"
behind your work and help shape the future of ML platforms that drive real
business value.
Humble and confident. You lead with curiosity, advocate for your ideas with
evidence, and collaborate without ego. You're not afraid to be wrong-and
quick to support your teammates.
Diversity-minded. You welcome diverse perspectives and actively work to build
an inclusive, thoughtful engineering culture.
Variety of technical opportunity is one of the best things about working at
The Trade Desk as a software engineer which is why we do not expect you to
know every technology we 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 don't need engineers who know all the answers; we need
engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the
questions yet to be asked.
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm
recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a
recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be
deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal
opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit,
competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national
origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition,
pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender