The Trade Desk is undergoing an infrastructure transformation towards SOA and needs a Senior Software Engineer to help create and maintain in-house service-oriented solutions at scale.
Requirements
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages: TypeScript, Go/Golang, or C
- Designing, developing, deploying, and supporting service-oriented applications
- Domain knowledge in one or more of the following: Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Backstage, Kafka, Service Discovery (i.e. Consul), AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), Linux operating system internals, filesystems, storage technologies, protocols, and networking stack
- GitOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers
- An understanding of systems design as well as the advantages or drawbacks to various approaches
- Uses a data driven approach to both daily time investments as well as long-term bets
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain in-house service oriented solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run a globally distributed system handling over 15 million requests per second
- Help product teams ship more efficiently and safely through automation, tools, and processes which can be used by all teams at The Trade Desk
- Ensure supportability by innovating solutions for our infrastructure through building, implementing, operating, and adding features to self-service tooling and automation
- Participate in root-cause analysis and postmortem discussions to effectively drive long-term operational health improvements
- Analyze for process gaps and implement solutions to speed up execution and reduce manual toil
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Other
- Operate in a way that reduces complexity and cuts operational risks with a solid grasp of costs and the return on investment-- of time, implementation, customer impact
- A track record of making significant and self-directed, contributions to large and impactful projects
- Actively communicate with your team as well as across the organization to effectively drive toward a unified goal
- Practical problem solving, superb communication and documentation skills
- Thinking beyond the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind an objective
- A welcoming of ideas, and understanding of, perspectives that are different from your own and an interest in seeking and building from a common ground
- You are a creative thinker, not bound by 'the way things have always been done' but are thinking of the questions nobody has thought of and are 'yet to be asked'
- Value and seek out paths for fostering diversity
- Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range
- 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
- Basic life insurance
- Well-being benefits
- Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
- Parental leave
- Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
- Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
- Around 13 paid holidays per year
- Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
