About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the reliability, performance, and efficiency of systems and applications.
- Design, build, and deliver reliable infrastructure and tools.
- Monitor capacity and replace manual workflows with automation.
- Support thousands of hosts globally with petabyte-scale data challenges.
- Participate in an agile methodology with team collaboration.
Requirements
- Passion for efficient operations and significant contributions to large technical projects.
- Proficiency in coding with languages such as C#, Python, Go, Powershell, or Ruby.
- Ability to design systems for scale, focusing on automation and eliminating manual toil.
- Broad skill set in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning.
- Understanding of modern architectures, including Docker, Kubernetes, and traditional configuration management tools.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to advocate for ideas.
- Creative thinking and ability to innovate beyond traditional methods.
- Experience working in diverse teams and valuing different perspectives.
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 and reimbursement for certain tuition expenses.
- Parental leave and 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.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan allowing purchase of stock at a discount.
