Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services

thetradedesk

Bellevue; San Francisco; Seattle

Posted May 13, 2026

Full-time
Software Engineering

Job description

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. 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. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

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. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

The Trade Desk approach to infrastructure is in the midst of an exciting transformation toward SOA and we need your help! Up until now we've grown to massive scale via a centralized Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. As embracers of change, we've decided that the best route forward is through smaller, focused teams. Now that we've decentralized, we're working on a self-service, Infrastructure as a Service, transformation. We have opportunities working with Kubernetes, Kafka, multiple cloud providers, and an ever-expanding physical server footprint. Transformations are challenging but they provide multiple opportunities for a positive impact on a growing company. If this sounds like an exciting pursuit, we'd love to talk to you!

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Software Engineer with a specialization in Infrastructure you will:

Create and maintain in-house service oriented solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run a globally distributed system handling over 15 million requests per second
Help product teams ship more efficiently and safely through automation, tools, and processes which can be used by all teams at The Trade Desk.
Ensure supportability by innovating solutions for our infrastructure through building, implementing, operating, and adding features to self-service tooling and automation.
Participate in root-cause analysis and postmortem discussions to effectively drive long-term operational health improvements.
Analyze for process gaps and implement solutions to speed up execution and reduce manual toil.
While this is not strictly a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role, there are elements of the mindset that apply-- configuration management, capacity modeling, monitoring, data collection and analysis, key performance indicator definitions, and tracking.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Skills and Experience

Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages: TypeScript, Go/Golang, or C#
Designing, developing, deploying, and supporting service-oriented applications
Domain knowledge in one or more of the following:
- Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Backstage
- Kafka, Service Discovery (i.e. Consul)
- AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
- Linux operating system internals, filesystems, storage technologies, protocols, and networking stack
- GitOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Key Attributes

Technical Contributions:

An understanding of systems design as well as the advantages or drawbacks to various approaches.
Experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers.
Uses a data driven approach to both daily time investments as well as long-term bets.

Operationally Efficient:

Operate in a way that reduces complexity and cuts operational risks with a solid grasp of costs and the return on investment-- of time, implementation, customer impact.
A track record of making significant and self-directed, contributions to large and impactful projects.
Actively communicate with your team as well as across the organization to effectively drive toward a unified goal.
Practical problem solving, superb communication and documentation skills.

An Empathetic, Objective, Critical Thinker:

Thinking beyond the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind an objective.
A welcoming of ideas, and understanding of, perspectives that are different from your own and an interest in seeking and building from a common ground.
You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done" but are thinking of the questions nobody has thought of and are "yet to be asked". What you know is less important than how well you learn, innovate, collaborate, and adapt.
As a global team from many diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, you value and seek out paths for fostering diversity.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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In accordance with various US state laws, 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, 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. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.

Note: 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. The base salary range for this role is

$124,900—$228,900 USD

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

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