Jobs at The Trade Desk

Design, build, and operate the API Platform for a Smart TV OS: own API design, identity and access (OAuth/OIDC, device/session/entitlement), partner self-serve, observability/SLOs, rollout/migration patterns, and the shared platform used by other Ventura teams. Lead production reliability, on-call, and incident response while mentoring engineers and driving architecture and developer-experience standards.

Lead the design, development, and optimization of Salesforce Sales Cloud. Collaborate with teams to build solutions and drive automation, ensuring high code quality and best practices.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will create and maintain service-oriented solutions, automate processes, and improve operational efficiency while participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Designs and maintains scalable backend data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. Builds RESTful APIs, data integrations, model-serving pipelines, monitoring and observability systems, and optimized storage solutions across relational, NoSQL, and cloud data platforms. Partners with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and stakeholders on architecture and production infrastructure. Requires five years of relevant experience, including substantial experience with software development, cloud platforms, distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, databases, and performance optimization.

Build and operate incident management tooling, observability infrastructure, logging systems, developer portal integrations, and alert-quality automation. Responsibilities include automating incident lifecycles, evaluating logging vendors and architectures, extending Backstage with Kubernetes and SLO capabilities, improving alert routing and grouping, and supporting production debugging across distributed systems. The role collaborates with engineers company-wide to improve reliability and on-call effectiveness.

Design, build, and operate production-grade analytics systems and pipelines that deliver proactive signals and insights for Sales and Client Services. Translate business needs into scalable data models, automation, and integrated workflows; embed AI/LLM capabilities responsibly; maintain reliability, testing, documentation, and metric governance to drive commercial impact and better decision-making.

The Staff Product Manager will enhance developer experiences by managing the software development lifecycle and evolving AI strategies in a fast-paced environment.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems and data products for identity infrastructure, collaborating with various teams to enhance performance and reliability.

Own end-to-end product initiatives for strategic accounts: discover client needs, validate demand, prototype and build AI-powered algorithms and front-end experiences, partner with engineering/design/data science, and lead go-to-market, adoption measurement, and commercial outcomes. Act as a client-facing product advisor driving 0-to-1 custom solutions that deepen partnerships and revenue.

Own design, build, operate, and monitor Ventura OS cloud infrastructure: compute, Kubernetes, storage, databases, identity, CI/CD, telemetry, GPU/ML serving, and build/release systems. Drive migrations, set platform standards, ensure reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency while partnering with application teams and mentoring engineers.

Lead revenue and take-rate financial modeling and forecasting, partner with product/commercial/data teams, produce exec-level presentations, drive planning cycles, design pricing/product financial models, and mentor junior FP&A staff while executing strategic finance projects.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build custom solutions focusing on scalability, optimize data processes, and enhance client applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in programmatic advertising.

The Sr. Enterprise Salesforce Engineer will design, develop, and optimize the Salesforce Sales Cloud platform, collaborating with teams to enhance revenue efficiency and user experience while ensuring best practices in security and code quality.

Lead technical vision and architecture for a partner-facing platform. Design scalable GraphQL/REST APIs, SDKs, micro-frontends, and developer tools. Contribute code (TypeScript/React, C#/.NET), establish standards for schema governance, security, observability, and Kubernetes operations. Coordinate cross-team integration, shape roadmaps, mentor engineers, and measure platform health and partner success.

Design, implement, and own full-lifecycle features for The Trade Desk's real-time bidding platform. Deliver high-quality, low-latency changes with automated tests, metrics, and monitoring. Drive cross-component architecture and performance improvements, validate releases, participate in code/design reviews, and contribute to the technical hiring process.

Source and engage top technical talent through customized strategies, market research, and personalized outreach. Partner with recruiters and hiring managers, maintain ATS/CRM data, deliver pipeline updates and market intelligence, leverage AI-enabled tools and automation, and build talent maps for critical skills to support hiring for software, ML/AI, and data engineering roles.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build data-focused products, engage in system-level optimizations, and contribute to distributed systems and machine learning for high-performance computing.

Lead strategic relationships and growth for The Trade Desk's largest travel clients. Drive joint business plans with global teams, own commercial negotiations and RFP responses, coordinate APAC/EMEA account efforts, influence product roadmap from client needs, and close strategic revenue opportunities while collaborating with product, marketing, and trading teams.