Senior Software Engineer - Data Transparency

The Trade Desk • Denver, CO

80d • $124,900 - $228,900

About The Position

The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. 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. Our Senior Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the back-end infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. This means whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. The Data Platform team is responsible for enabling the business to create powerful and efficient insights from data. In this role you will be working cross functionally with data engineers, data analysts, solution architects and business intelligence to design and implement optimized datasets that accelerate innovation. This team will also be responsible for building the framework and guardrails to make sure our datasets are high quality, compliant, and stable. Lastly you will be systemically identifying and implementing fundamental improvements to how we utilize data while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Requirements

• Strong communicator able to identify and build robust datasets that provide value to multiple functions.
• Passion for making large scale systematic improvements.
• Expert in building and tuning large scale data pipelines in Spark.
• Experience building complex data pipelines in Airflow is a plus.
• Sustained track record of leading engineers with a wide range of experience, while also making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
• Ability to think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you & your team are doing.
• Driver of technical projects and providing leadership in a ground-breaking and fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.
• Broadly skilled engineer accustomed to developing web services and building always-on systems.
• Product-focused mindset with the passion and ability to contribute to discovering what will delight clients.
• Ability to work with confidence and without ego, advocating for ideas while being open to trade-offs.
• Creative thinker, not bound by traditional methods, with a focus on learning and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Shaping the vision and execution of how we manage data across its lifecycle - from curated internal datasets to powering production features or privacy-centric exports for external partners.
• Building solutions that will help enable data transparency throughout the org through establishing processing that improve our overall metadata and data lineage.
• Designing and owning core, foundational datasets that reduce redundant and costly downstream transformations across the data ecosystem.
• Collaborating closely with Legal, Security, and Governance teams to ensure responsible and compliant usage of data as a steward of our internal data platform.
• Helping define and uphold standards for data quality, observability, and lineage to increase trust and traceability across the organization.

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 purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees