The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk

Senior Software Engineer - Observability & IRM

Boulder; Denver; Seattle · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$125k-$229kDetected 18 hours ago
Distributed SystemsKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaIncident ResponseAccessibilityCommunication

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 4 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

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THE TRADE DESK, INC. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Project Management Specialists in New York, NEW YORK on 2026-03-04. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 13 days (2026-09-19), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.+2 more active determinations on file

Green-card follow-through: 50%

Of 8 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 4 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 515 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Files H-1B transfers

9 transfer filings in the last year, covering 9 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • The Incident Response Services (IRS) taskforce focuses on the on-call experience.
  • Help evaluate and migrate our logging stack
  • Participate in the re-evaluation of our logging vendor and collection architecture

Responsibilities

  • By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide.
  • 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.
  • The team is responsible for making incidents easier to detect, manage, and optimize using historical data points information.
  • Build and maintain automation around the incident lifecycle: alerting, escalation, incident channels, retros, and SLA tracking
  • Alert quality tooling - Build the systems that give engineers better signal and less noise - smarter routing, better grouping, tighter feedback loops between alerts and the teams that own them

Requirements

  • Comfort working across the stack - this role touches distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability pipelines, and web-based tooling
  • Familiarity with observability concepts: logging, alerting, on-call workflows
  • 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.

Skills

  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools
  • Familiarity with Sumo Logic or other log management platforms
  • Prior work on developer portals or service catalog tooling (Backstage, OpsLevel, etc.)
  • Experience with Kubernetes at scale
  • A deep understanding of HunnyPt
  • The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters.
  • The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer.
  • All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

Compensation

  • In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role.

Company info

  • The Service Excellence (SE) team owns the tools and infrastructure that help engineers at The Trade Desk understand and operate production systems.
  • What you will work on:
  • Incident management tooling
  • Backstage/Service catalog - Extend our internal developer portal with K8s integrations, maturity models, and SLO adoption tooling
  • Who you are:
  • Experience building and operating production infrastructure or internal developer tooling
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