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Senior Software Engineer - Release

The Trade Desk

New York, NY
Full Time
Senior
125k-225k
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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 built an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value diverse perspectives and foster inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The role involves working with the team responsible for how we ship our software to production, improving developer productivity, and providing world-class tooling for deployments in a highly collaborative, distributed environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop continuous deployment (CD) platform at scale that is cloud native (CNCF standard), extensible, configurable, and intuitive for all users across the company.
  • Build new features and components in our developer tools, processes, and services.
  • Improve existing features and components to increase efficiency across the engineering organization.
  • Review code from peers and mentor others through example, teaching, and collaboration.
  • Drive complex changes involving multiple components and systems managed by other engineers.
  • Build components and processes used by engineers organization-wide.
  • Leverage data to analyze opportunities and communicate the impact of work on operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Care deeply about improving developer experience, tools, and engineering processes.
  • Have 5+ years of software development engineering experience.
  • Experience with using or extending ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, or other cloud native CI/CD platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • Experience with cloud/virtualization environments such as AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes.
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or relevant engineering field, or equivalent experience.
  • Drive innovative solutions while being sensitive to current needs of engineers.
  • Experience leading and completing projects with high technical ambiguity.
  • Experience working with non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), both as a consumer and enabler.
  • Proficiency with modern programming languages such as C#, Java, Golang, or Python.
  • Experience working in large codebases, organizing and refactoring.
  • Experience with configuration management.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • Experience with cloud native platforms and tools.
  • Degree in computer science or relevant engineering field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits & Perks

  • 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 up to 120 hours in the first year and 160 hours thereafter.
  • Around 13 paid holidays per year.
  • Stock purchase plan at a discount.

Working at The Trade Desk

Our culture is based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We take pride in being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and pursuers of excellence. We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, fostering inclusive environments where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 15, 2025
Salary125k-225k
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceSenior

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About The Trade Desk

Website

thetradedesk.com

Company Size

1001-5000 employees

Location

New York, NY

Industry

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

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