What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer position at The Trade Desk?
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: 400 Spectrum Center Drive, Suite 550, Irvine, CA 92618
Job Duties: Implement software systems for our main trading UI platform, including developing new features, improving runtime performance of the backend, maintaining the microservices infrastructure in Kubernetes, and implementing data pipelines with Airflow. Design and build infrastructure to ingest front-end user interactions, process them with data pipelines, and implement mechanisms to persistently store the data for downstream analytics and ML workloads. Develop frameworks to run A/B testing allowing engineers to launch scalable A/B tests under the framework, including capabilities for adding key metrics to monitor and draw conclusion with statistical significance. Contribute to the main UI platform of The Trade Desk, including finding out users’ needs and coming up with technical designs that can satisfy users’ needs, as well as implementing them within a reasonable amount of time and cost constraints. Work on bug troubleshooting or improvements for the existing projects, work on upgrading all components under when the platform updates, including upgrading the platform to .NET Core or a new version of SQL Server. Coordinate with various stakeholders for projects on the main UI platform, including engineers, project managers, system analysts, and business analysts to find the key success metrics to define the success of projects, expected user behaviors, and translate the goal into metrics that can be quantified within the existing dataset available. Define the performance expectations for any new features added to the main UI platform, use profiling tools to generate database query, diagnose the bottleneck of existing logic, and able to mitigate and compare the performance before and after the change to prove the effectiveness of change. Maintain the CI/CD pipelines to deploy microservices to multiple environments by using Docker and Kubernetes command line tools in a fast, timed manner.
Salary: $166,500 - $249,700/year
Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with either C#, .NET, Entity Framework, Razor/cshtml, React, Angular, TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Node, Microsoft SQL Server, Git, AWS/S3 or similar cloud-computing tools. Must have three (3) years of experience with: client-server architecture, localization, accessibility, modern testing methodologies, and software-as-a-service; CI/CD pipelines; and using data-driven approaches to improve against KPIs. Must have one (1) year of experience with Kubernetes and microservices development.
CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$166,500—$249,700 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Please reach out to us at accommodations@ thetradedesk. com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.
When you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions. Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact our hiring decisions.
Location: 400 Spectrum Center Drive, Suite 550, Irvine, CA 92618
Job Duties: Implement software systems for our main trading UI platform, including developing new features, improving runtime performance of the backend, maintaining the microservices infrastructure in Kubernetes, and implementing data pipelines with Airflow. Design and build infrastructure to ingest front-end user interactions, process them with data pipelines, and implement mechanisms to persistently store the data for downstream analytics and ML workloads. Develop frameworks to run A/B testing allowing engineers to launch scalable A/B tests under the framework, including capabilities for adding key metrics to monitor and draw conclusion with statistical significance. Contribute to the main UI platform of The Trade Desk, including finding out users’ needs and coming up with technical designs that can satisfy users’ needs, as well as implementing them within a reasonable amount of time and cost constraints. Work on bug troubleshooting or improvements for the existing projects, work on upgrading all components under when the platform updates, including upgrading the platform to .NET Core or a new version of SQL Server. Coordinate with various stakeholders for projects on the main UI platform, including engineers, project managers, system analysts, and business analysts to find the key success metrics to define the success of projects, expected user behaviors, and translate the goal into metrics that can be quantified within the existing dataset available. Define the performance expectations for any new features added to the main UI platform, use profiling tools to generate database query, diagnose the bottleneck of existing logic, and able to mitigate and compare the performance before and after the change to prove the effectiveness of change. Maintain the CI/CD pipelines to deploy microservices to multiple environments by using Docker and Kubernetes command line tools in a fast, timed manner.
Salary: $166,500 - $249,700/year
Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with either C#, .NET, Entity Framework, Razor/cshtml, React, Angular, TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Node, Microsoft SQL Server, Git, AWS/S3 or similar cloud-computing tools. Must have three (3) years of experience with: client-server architecture, localization, accessibility, modern testing methodologies, and software-as-a-service; CI/CD pipelines; and using data-driven approaches to improve against KPIs. Must have one (1) year of experience with Kubernetes and microservices development.
CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$166,500—$249,700 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Please reach out to us at accommodations@ thetradedesk. com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.
When you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions. Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact our hiring decisions.
Salary : $166,500 - $249,700