The Trade Desk is looking to solve the problem of enhancing engineering productivity and reliability by designing and implementing scalable software components and infrastructure within internal developer platforms and distributed systems.
Requirements
- Five (5) years of experience with: REST APIs or gRPC;
- Five (5) years of experience with: Java, C, or C++.
- Four (4) years of experience with: Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL;
- Four (4) years of experience with: Grafana and Prometheus;
- Four (4) years of experience with: AWS, including SQS, EC2, CloudTrail, IAM, AWS Autoscaling, CloudWatch, ECS and EKS;
- Four (4) years of experience with: Kubernetes and Docker Container;
- Four (4) years of experience with: S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable software components and infrastructure within internal developer platforms and distributed systems to enhance engineering productivity and reliability.
- Optimize and refactor existing tooling, services, and workflows to reduce developer friction and improve system performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability across engineering teams.
- Conduct comprehensive technical design and code reviews for high-impact systems, ensuring architectural alignment, adherence to secure coding practices, and performance efficiency.
- Serve as a technical advisor to guide software design patterns and best practices across teams.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives by scoping and executing complex projects that span multiple services, teams, and domains, including dependency resolution, phased rollouts, and backward compatibility.
- Develop reusable frameworks and internal APIs to enable standardized integration and extensibility across the company’s engineering organization; own shared libraries or SDKs used by multiple services and teams.
- Use telemetry, logs, and operational data to identify bottlenecks, quantify the impact of engineering investments, and drive decisions around prioritization and architectural improvements.
Other
- Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role
- Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and seven (7) years of experience in the job offered or related role
- 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
