Sr Software Engineer - Computing

The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. 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.

Overview

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

About the Role

The High-Performance Computing team powers the core bidding platform by supplying large amounts of user and graph data, ensuring data availability, freshness and quality. Our engineers are end-to-end owners who participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders.

Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. It’s important we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously gaining efficiency.

Senior Engineers contribute to more than our product – they build up our team through mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams, raising the bar for those around them.

Responsibilities

• You will be working on system-level optimization in throughput and network bandwidth as well as applying creative probabilistic algorithms to support future scale of user targeting data. You will be responsible for ensuring health and scalability the user data infrastructure as our platform evolves.
• We expect our engineers to be end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of software lifecycle, including research, experimentation, architecture, coding, quality assurance, monitoring, maintenance, continuous optimization and automation.
• We have dozens of mission-focused teams working across a wide spectrum of technological challenges. You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces – to name a few.
• Senior Engineers contribute to more than our product – they build up our team. Through mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams, they raise the bar for those around them.

We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. You will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6+ years’ professional experience in high impact software development environments.
• Hands-on experience with a variety of platforms and technologies: .NET Core & C#, Java, Linux, Networking, Streaming Systems, No
  
  SQL databases, Distributed Systems.
• A candidate with deep expertise at the intersection of distributed systems, high-performance computing, math and advertising, ideally someone who has built large-scale distributed systems and understands ads ecosystem.
• Be responsible for planning and execution of initiatives, guiding and assigning work for other team members, but not necessarily as a people manager.
• Understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices.
• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in a computer-science or relevant engineering related field or equivalent experience.

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