Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions
The Trade Desk1 day ago
Base Salary
$125k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture and end-to-end system design for Custom Solutions while influencing platform patterns and engineering best practices.
- Develop custom APIs and backend services that integrate with the core platform.
- Optimize data storage, retrieval, and API performance for global-scale programmatic workloads.
- Build scalable, maintainable, and resilient software across the stack.
- Create and maintain data-processing workflows and automation for large-scale advertiser operations.
- Collaborate with data scientists to integrate productionized models and algorithms into full-stack systems for bidding and analytics.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability across frontend and backend systems.
- Design and build responsive, intuitive client-facing applications using frontend frameworks.
- Standardize reusable patterns and components to accelerate future solution delivery.
- Lead technically ambiguous projects and mentor and grow peers.
Requirements
- 11+ years of software development experience with significant experience building and scaling production systems.
- Deep experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems across client-facing applications, backend services, and data workflows.
- Proven ability to own architecture and technical direction for complex end-to-end systems.
- Strong knowledge of data-processing frameworks and workflows for data-intensive workloads.
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, C#, or Scala.
- Understanding of data modeling and experience with relational and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or Vertica.
- Familiarity with big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Kafka and with resilient, high-performance system design.
- Track record of leading and completing technically ambiguous projects and mentoring peers.
- Strong communication skills for aligning technical decisions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with full-stack development is a plus.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
- 401k retirement plan with company match.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage and basic life insurance.
- Well-being benefits and reimbursement for certain tuition expenses.
- Parental leave, sick time, vacation time, and approximately 13 paid holidays per year.
- Eligibility to purchase company stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employees may be eligible for stock-based compensation, variable incentives, and commissions.
- The role offers a stated US base salary range of $124,900–$228,900.