Senior Software Engineer – Inventory Selection

Join The Trade Desk, a global technology company committed to creating a better, more open internet through principled, intelligent advertising. As a Software Engineer, you'll be an end-to-end owner, participating in designing, building, and delivering data-focused products. Work on backend infrastructure with a focus on quality at scale, building client-facing applications, internal solutions, and model pipelines. Solve algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in a highly collaborative, distributed system environment.

Responsibilities:
- Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle software development.
- Drive complex changes and deliver quality changes with automated tests, metrics, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with team members and guide product feature changes.
- Implement and maintain product features.
- Build components and processes used by others.
- Build execution plans incorporating user data and market insight.
- Validate changes for high-quality releases.
- Work in a distributed system environment and understand business objectives.
- Participate in projects with technical ambiguity and contribute to success criteria.
- Lead through example, mentorship, and teaching.
- Participate in hiring activities.
- Use data to analyze the impact of your work.

Requirements:
- Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team across time zones.
- Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
- Experience working with distributed systems.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala.
- Knowledge of software development code editors and version control systems (Git, Perforce).
- 7+ years of software development engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-have skills:
- Experience with database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis).
- Experience building micro-services, operating systems and cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka.

The Trade Desk values trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration, fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.