Sr Software Engineer - High Performance Computing
About The Position
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. Our Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who will participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. At The Trade Desk we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. This means you will have the opportunity, based on your interests and background, to work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces – to name a few. Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. It’s important we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment that is based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously gaining efficiency. Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. It’s important we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment that is based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our engineering managers are there to build trust with our talented engineers, to understand their strengths and weaknesses and to ensure they are motivated and productive, all the while having fun and enjoying every day. About the Role: The High-Performance Computing team powers core bidding platform by supplying large amounts of user and graph data, ensuring data availability, freshness and quality. You will be working on system-level optimization in throughput and network bandwidth as well as applying creative probabilistic algorithms to support future scale of user targeting data. You will be responsible for ensuring health and scalability the user data infrastructure of as our platform evolves. We expect our engineers to be end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of software lifecycle, including research, experimentation, architecture, coding, quality assurance, monitoring, maintenance, continuous optimization and automation. We have dozens of mission-focused teams working across a wide spectrum of technological challenges. You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces – to name a few. Senior Engineers contribute to more than our product – they build up our team. Through a combination of mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams, they make others better and raise the bar for those around them. We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6+ years’ professional experience in high impact software development environment.
- Hands-on experience with a variety of platforms and technologies: .NET Core & C#, Java, Linux, Networking, Streaming Systems, NoSQL databases, Distributed Systems.
- Deep expertise at the intersection of distributed system, high-performance computing, math and advertising, ideally someone who has built large-scale distributed systems and understands ads ecosystem.
- Responsible for planning and execution of initiatives, guiding and assigning work for other team members.
- Understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in a computer-science or relevant engineering related field or equivalent experience.
- Understand engineering fundamentals and think from first principles.
- Proven records of building distributed systems that are always online.
- Work with confidence and without ego, hold defensible ideas and advocate for what you believe is right.
- Adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and support your fellow teammates.
- Value, seek out, and foster diversity.
- Creative thinker, ready to learn and innovate, and not bound by "the way things have always been done".
- Ability to learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job.
Nice To Haves
- The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk.
Responsibilities
- Participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for stakeholders.
- Work on system-level optimization in throughput and network bandwidth.
- Apply creative probabilistic algorithms to support future scale of user targeting data.
- Ensure health and scalability of the user data infrastructure.
- Participate actively in all aspects of software lifecycle, including research, experimentation, architecture, coding, quality assurance, monitoring, maintenance, continuous optimization and automation.
- Mentor, provide technical leadership, and/or directly manage small teams.
- Welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.
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
Education Level
Associate degree
