The Trade Desk needs to transform its infrastructure towards a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and build a large Platform-as-a-Service Kubernetes estate to support its growing scale and user experience.
Requirements
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages: Python, Go / Golang, Typescript, Ruby, or C
- Designing, developing, deploying Kubernetes clusters in support of service-oriented applications
- Domain knowledge or a strong motivation to learn several of the following: Kubernetes Control Plane internals, addon extensions, scaling tools, Provisioning and deployment tooling for Kubernetes, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, storage technologies, protocols, and networking stack
- Private cloud operations at scale
- Experience with serverless infrastructure as a service is a huge plus, especially Kubernetes in traditional datacenters
Responsibilities
- Provide solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run a globally distributed system handling over 16 million requests per second
- Help product teams ship more efficiently and safely through automation, tools, and processes
- Ensure supportability by innovating solutions for our infrastructure through building, implementing, operating, and adding features to our heterogeneous Kubernetes ecosystem
- 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
- 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
- Welcoming of ideas and understanding perspectives that are different from your own and an interest in seeking and building a common ground
- You are a creative thinker, not bound by 'the way things have always been done'
- You think of the questions nobody has thought of and might be hard to ask
- You 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
