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The Trade Desk

Senior Software Engineer - Data Governance

The Trade Desk, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 80301


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 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:

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, and data warehousing.

Contribute to building up our team through mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams.

As a member of the Privacy and Data Governance team, your work will impact our business and growth globally, enabling our growth and scaling our system through a continuously changing privacy and data governance landscape.

Who you are:

You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

You have a sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful data engineering projects.

You understand engineering fundamentals and can evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.

You have experience in data engineering, including SQL, ETL, data modeling, and technologies similar to Spark, Scala, C#, Java, etc.

You are a broadly skilled engineer, accustomed to developing web services and building always-on systems.

You have a product-focused mindset and the ability to mesh real-world requirements with effective engineering work.

You work with confidence and without ego, advocating for your ideas while supporting your teammates.

You value, seek out, and foster diversity, welcoming ideas that are different from your own.

You are a creative thinker, capable of learning quickly and innovating beyond traditional methods.

Variety of technical opportunity is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job.

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. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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