The Trade Desk · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$212K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expThe Trade Desk is a leading technology company in advertising. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement scalable software components, optimize existing tools, and lead technical initiatives across teams.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable software components and infrastructure within internal developer platforms and distributed systems to enhance engineering productivity and reliability
Optimize and refactor existing tooling, services, and workflows to reduce developer friction and improve system performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability across engineering teams
Conduct comprehensive technical design and code reviews for high-impact systems, ensuring architectural alignment, adherence to secure coding practices, and performance efficiency
Serve as a technical advisor to guide software design patterns and best practices across teams
Lead cross-functional technical initiatives by scoping and executing complex projects that span multiple services, teams, and domains, including dependency resolution, phased rollouts, and backward compatibility
Develop reusable frameworks and internal APIs to enable standardized integration and extensibility across the company’s engineering organization; own shared libraries or SDKs used by multiple services and teams
Use telemetry, logs, and operational data to identify bottlenecks, quantify the impact of engineering investments, and drive decisions around prioritization and architectural improvements
Qualification
Required
Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role OR Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and seven (7) years of experience in the job offered or related role
Must have five (5) years of experience with: REST APIs or gRPC; and Java, C#, or C++
Must have four (4) years of experience with: Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL; Grafana and Prometheus; AWS, including SQS, EC2, CloudTrail, IAM, AWS Autoscaling, CloudWatch, ECS and EKS; Kubernetes and Docker Container; and S3 or Azure Blob Storage
Benefits
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
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.
Company
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (44)
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2023 (38)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$257.5MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementBridge BankHermes Growth Partners
2021-07-08Post Ipo Equity
2016-09-21IPO
2016-05-09Debt Financing· $125M
Leadership Team
Jeff Green
CEO
Mitch Waters
SVP - Southeast Asia, India, Australia & New Zealand
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