Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure

The Trade Desk•Denver, CO

42d

About The Position

The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers -- and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day. So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk! This is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position, responsible for the reliability, performance, and efficiency of The Trade Desk systems and applications. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering reliable infrastructure and tools for our clients, partners, and employees. The Trade Desk infrastructure is "hybrid" both in operating system (Linux, Windows) and environment (bare metal, cloud). An SRE should be well rounded and "technology agnostic" with a pragmatic approach towards the best tool for the situation. You will have the opportunity to support thousands of hosts throughout the world, with petabyte-scale data challenges. Participating in an agile methodology, you will work closely with your teammates to monitor capacity, replace manual workflows with tools/automation, and evangelize scalable long-term solutions to technical problems.

Requirements

You have a passion for efficient operations.
You've made significant contributions to large and impactful technical projects.
You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing.
You can code.
You code with languages such as C#, Python, Go, Powershell, or Ruby.
You design for scale.
You manage cattle, not pets.
You design systems to auto-scale and auto-heal.
Via automation, you relentlessly strive to eliminate manual toil.
You are a broadly skilled engineer with an interest in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and/or capacity planning.
You have the breadth of knowledge necessary to support a wide variety of software and systems.
You understand modern architectures.
You are able to use traditional configuration management such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform as well as modern infrastructure schedulers like Kubernetes and Mesos.
You enjoy working with the latest monitoring and metrics platforms such as Prometheus.
You are comfortable working on physical gear or in the cloud.
You work with confidence and without ego.
You have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right.
You are also adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates.
You often have strong opinions but weakly held.
You value, seek out, and foster diversity.
You welcome ideas that are different from your own and be skilled at finding and building from common ground.
You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done".
What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate.

Responsibilities

responsible for the reliability, performance, and efficiency of The Trade Desk systems and applications
participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering reliable infrastructure and tools for our clients, partners, and employees
monitor capacity
replace manual workflows with tools/automation
evangelize scalable long-term solutions to technical problems

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