The Trade Desk
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Identity
The Trade Desk, San Jose, California, United States, 95199
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 have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. 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.
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.
What we doOur Senior/Staff 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.
Responsibilities:Participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data products for our clients.Work with petabyte-scale data challenges, large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, machine learning, and advanced visualizations.Work with data processing pipelines, ML pipelines, data processing automation, data governance, data visualization, data quality, data privacy, data warehousing.Contribute to team growth through mentoring, technical leadership, and/or management of small teams.
Who We Are Looking For:A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed contributions to large and impactful data engineering projects.Understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.Experience in data engineering, SQL, ETL, data modeling, and technologies such as Spark, Scala, C#, Java.Broad skill set in developing web services and building always-on systems.A product-focused mindset and a passion for contributing to client satisfaction.Ability to work with confidence and without ego.Strong knowledge and exercise of leadership in daily work.Strongly-held, defensible ideas with the ability to identify and evaluate trade-offs.Value, seek out, and foster diversity in a global team environment.Creative thinker who is not bound by traditional methods.
What We Care About:Contributions based on merit and competence, not limited by education or specific technologies.Ability to learn quickly and solve complex problems using the best tools for the job.Team members who are trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence.
Variety of technical opportunity is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer. We do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start; what we care about is your ability to learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems.
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
NY, CO, CA, and WA residents only:
In accordance with NY, CO, CA, and WA law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
Base Salary Range:
$181,000 — $272,600 USD
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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.
What we doOur Senior/Staff 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.
Responsibilities:Participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data products for our clients.Work with petabyte-scale data challenges, large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, machine learning, and advanced visualizations.Work with data processing pipelines, ML pipelines, data processing automation, data governance, data visualization, data quality, data privacy, data warehousing.Contribute to team growth through mentoring, technical leadership, and/or management of small teams.
Who We Are Looking For:A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed contributions to large and impactful data engineering projects.Understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.Experience in data engineering, SQL, ETL, data modeling, and technologies such as Spark, Scala, C#, Java.Broad skill set in developing web services and building always-on systems.A product-focused mindset and a passion for contributing to client satisfaction.Ability to work with confidence and without ego.Strong knowledge and exercise of leadership in daily work.Strongly-held, defensible ideas with the ability to identify and evaluate trade-offs.Value, seek out, and foster diversity in a global team environment.Creative thinker who is not bound by traditional methods.
What We Care About:Contributions based on merit and competence, not limited by education or specific technologies.Ability to learn quickly and solve complex problems using the best tools for the job.Team members who are trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence.
Variety of technical opportunity is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer. We do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start; what we care about is your ability to learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems.
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
NY, CO, CA, and WA residents only:
In accordance with NY, CO, CA, and WA law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
Base Salary Range:
$181,000 — $272,600 USD
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