The Trade Desk
Digital advertising
StaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Staff Software Engineer at The Trade Desk”
Industry & Context.
Solve meaningful challenges; Work from first principles; Evaluate solutions; Adapt solutions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Commercial development skills in OO programming, Cloud-based platform experience, Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology, Experience in Agile Scrum tools, Understanding of designing web-based, service-oriented applications, Understanding of integrated back-office systems, Experience in distributed source control system
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Highly collaborative environment; Cross-functional teams; Diverse backgrounds; Different experiences; Different perspectives
Process & Methodology
Agile, Scrum
Full Job Description
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. What we do Our Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the back-end infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. This means whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our back-end developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization and scale challenges in everything we do. What you’ll do: Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is: You will particip
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