Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Build the Feature Flags & Experimentation platform (A/B testing) for The Trade Desk. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather experimentation requirements and develop scalable solutions iteratively. Lead the designing for the Experimentation Platform including the integration with various business-critical applications. Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams and platform reliability. Engineer sophisticated data pipelines using Airflow and Spark, with focus on performance, costs and data integrity. Collaborate with Data Scientist and drive the development of advanced statistical techniques and data pipelines to reduce the experiment cycle times and maintain trust in experiment data. Drive complex changes involving multiple components and complex systems run by other software engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and seven (7) years of experience in the job offered or related role OR Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
- Must have five (5) years of experience with model languages on C# or Java.
- Must have three (3) years of experience with: large scale distributed system coordinating thousands of servers across the cloud; building & maintaining performance critical system with high quality and long term maintainability; building feature flags/AB testing platform as well as analytics data pipeline with petabyte of data; and leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity that involves cross team collaborations.
Responsibilities
- Build the Feature Flags & Experimentation platform (A/B testing) for The Trade Desk.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather experimentation requirements and develop scalable solutions iteratively.
- Lead the designing for the Experimentation Platform including the integration with various business-critical applications.
- Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams and platform reliability.
- Engineer sophisticated data pipelines using Airflow and Spark, with focus on performance, costs and data integrity.
- Collaborate with Data Scientist and drive the development of advanced statistical techniques and data pipelines to reduce the experiment cycle times and maintain trust in experiment data.
- Drive complex changes involving multiple components and complex systems run by other software engineers.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
