Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Infrastructure

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The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. 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.

So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!

• This is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position, responsible for the reliability, performance, and efficiency of The Trade Desk systems and applications. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering reliable infrastructure and tools for our clients, partners, and employees.
• The Trade Desk infrastructure is “hybrid” both in operating system (Linux, Windows) and environment (bare metal, cloud). An SRE should be well rounded and “technology agnostic” with a pragmatic approach towards the best tool for the situation. You will have the opportunity to support thousands of hosts throughout the world, with petabyte‑scale data challenges.
• Participating in an agile methodology, you will work closely with your teammates to monitor capacity, replace manual workflows with tools/automation, and evangelize scalable long‑term solutions to technical problems.

• You have a passion for efficient operations. You’ve made significant contributions to large and impactful technical projects. You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the ‘why’ behind what you are doing.
• You can code. At our scale we are not interested in “boutique” manual management of servers and software. This is an engineer position, not an administrator or operator. You code with languages such as C#, Python, Go, Powershell, or Ruby. When a problem needs a software solution, you roll up your sleeves and get to work.
• You design for scale. You manage cattle, not pets; understand that the only way to scale is to avoid special snowflakes of systems and applications. You design systems to auto‑scale and auto‑heal, and relentlessly strive to eliminate manual toil through automation.
• You are a broadly skilled engineer with an interest in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and/or capacity planning, and you have the breadth of knowledge to support a wide variety of software and systems.
• You understand modern architectures. You know why Docker and containers are more than just buzzwords, but you are cautious against over‑complexity and over engineering. You are able to use traditional configuration management such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform as well as modern infrastructure schedulers like Kubernetes and Mesos, and you enjoy working with the latest monitoring and metrics platforms such as Prometheus.
• You are comfortable working on physical gear or in the cloud. Our hybrid environment requires objective knowledge of infrastructure, equally comfortable with traditional, physical servers as well as the software abstractions present in cloud platforms such as AWS.
• You work with confidence and without ego. Your engineering leadership and defensible ideas are strong, yet you remain open to trade‑offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your teammates.
• You value, seek out, and foster diversity. We are a global team from many diverse backgrounds, and you welcome ideas that are different from your own and are skilled at finding common ground.
• You are a creative thinker, not bound by “the way things have always been done”. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet.

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