The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk

Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions

Bellevue · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$125k-$229kDetected 2 days ago
PythonJavaC#ScalaDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsSnowflakeKafkaSparkData EngineeringData ScienceAccessibilityCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • 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.
  • When you work here, your impact is worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • This role is ideal for someone passionate about building innovative, data-driven solutions in the programmatic advertising space.
  • Drive architecture and design for end-to-end systems within Custom Solutions, influencing platform patterns and best practices across teams
  • Develop custom APIs and backend services that integrate seamlessly with the core platform
  • Optimize data storage, retrieval, and API performance for global-scale programmatic workloads
  • Create and maintain data processing workflows and automation solutions to support large-scale advertiser operations
  • Collaborate with data scientists to integrate productionized models and algorithms into full-stack systems for advanced bidding and analytics
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and observability across frontend and backend systems to maintain reliability and performance
  • Design and build client-facing applications with responsive, intuitive UIs using frontend frameworks
  • Deep experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems across client-facing applications, backend services, and data workflows
  • By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide.

Requirements

  • 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)
  • Track record of leading and completing projects with high levels of technical ambiguity while mentoring and growing peers
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job.
  • What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with full stack development is a plus technical skill set

Skills

  • Apply best practices in software engineering across the stack for scalability, maintainability, and resilience
  • Identify opportunities to standardize patterns to accelerate future solution delivery

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this role is
  • $124,900 - $228,900 USD

Benefits

  • Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
  • At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range.
  • We are a small, high impact team that strategically enables advertisers to unlock advanced capabilities, we solve unique partner needs, shape technical patterns that benefit the wider platform.

Company info

  • At The Trade Desk, we design and build custom solutions that extend our platform's capabilities, with a focus on quality, reusability, and customer success.
  • Whether it's enabling advanced bidding strategies, streamlining data pipelines, or creating bespoke reporting experiences, we build with quality and scale in mind.
  • We value a culture of collaboration, innovation, and learning.
  • Here, engineers invent and simplify as they extend platform capabilities, striking the right balance between reusability and customization while partnering closely with clients and cross functional teams.
  • Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too).
  • 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.
  • The world's brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
  • We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another.

Equal opportunity

  • As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
  • Please reach out to us at accommodations@​thetradedesk.​com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.
  • When you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions.
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