Overview

The Trade Desk is a global technology company focused on principled, intelligent advertising and building a better, more open internet. We handle high-scale data and value an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We foster inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

Do you enjoy solving hard problems at scale? Join a dynamic, globally connected team where your contributions make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem. Fortune magazine has consistently ranked The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

What We Do
Our Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who participate in designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for stakeholders. We focus on backend infrastructure with a quality-at-scale mindset, building client-facing applications, internal solutions, and model pipelines for bidding optimizations. We ensure robust infrastructure, development, and tools to operate efficiently.

Our system serves 24/7 worldwide traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, tackling algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges across a broad range of technologies. The Privacy Engineering and Data Governance team, within the Data Platform, focuses on handling sensitive data, ensuring proper access, lifecycle tracking, and usage awareness at a scale of 15 million QPS without slowing down. We are a horizontal team touching every product with internal stakeholders across multiple R&D and UX teams. The team is based in London, UK and Denver and Boulder, CO, US.

What you’ll do
This role offers technical leadership and people-management opportunities within the team charter. Your work will support The Trade Desk’s mission and include:

• Technical leadership
  • Actively review design and code.
  • Deliver meaningful technical and hands-on contributions to the team’s objectives.
  • Understand strategic business priorities and how the team’s charter aligns with the roadmap and communicate how work fits into it.
• Project level processes and execution
  • Collaborate with the PM team to develop the roadmap and MVP plans.
  • Develop execution plans (resources, milestones, timelines) for roadmaps.
  • Continuously analyze and optimize team efficiency.
  • Establish and deliver on team commitments.
  • Measure and maintain/improve the quality of the team’s contributions.
  • Communicate important developments and changes to area leadership and stakeholders.
• People management
  • Manage a small team.
  • Help team members develop career growth plans.
  • Provide regular and effective feedback.
  • Hold weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports.
  • Annual reviews and compensation recommendations.

Who you are
We value engineers who are trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and pursuers of excellence. You don’t have to meet every requirement, but those who meet most are likelier to succeed in this role:

• Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team across time zones and continents.
• Effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Passionate about the "why" behind what you’re doing, not just the challenge.
• Track record of leading and completing projects with technical ambiguity.
• 10+ years of software development experience and 1+ years of people management.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience. We value contribution over formal education.
• Proficiency in one or more of: C#, Python, SQL, or Scala (and willingness to learn others).
• Solid understanding of cloud computing.
• Nice-to-have experience in: database engines (MS SQL Server, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis), building microservices, operating systems and cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka, EMR, Spark.

We emphasize learning and innovation. We look for engineers who can invent answers to questions not yet asked and solve complex problems with the right tools for the job.

The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are merit-based and non-discriminatory with respect to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We are committed to accessibility in our hiring process. If you require accommodations during the application process, please contact accommodations@thetradedesk.com.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, Advertising Services