The Trade Desk is looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions to design and build custom solutions that extend their platform's capabilities. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in designing and building large-scale, distributed systems, and a proven ability to own architecture and technical direction for complex, end-to-end systems.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems across client-facing applications, backend services, and data workflows
- Proven ability to own architecture and technical direction for complex, end-to-end systems
- Strong knowledge of data processing frameworks and workflows, with experience scaling systems for data-intensive workloads
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Scala
- Solid understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with relational and cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Vertica)
- Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka) and best practices for building resilient, high-performance systems
- Track record of leading and completing projects with high levels of technical ambiguity while mentoring and growing peers
- Strong communication skills for aligning technical decisions with business priorities across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- 11+ years of software development experience, with significant experience building and scaling production systems
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- 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
- 13 paid holidays per year
