The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
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.
Engineers with a moderate level of experience (and beyond) are best suited for this role. We have a strong core team and leadership, we are looking to scale our team's impact by adding more individual contributors.
What we do:
SWAT Engineers enjoy dynamic problem solving and rapidly delivering customer value. From identifying performance issues to recommending architectural changes to shipping quick fixes, this is truly a full stack role. Our team advocates for change at an enterprise level working across our entire codebase and with different engineering teams to address high urgency issues. In this job, engineers create tooling and/or processes that help identify and remediate issues. On SWAT we end every day getting things done.
What you'll do:
- Care deeply about improving customer experience, both internal or external.
- Chase down problems, find the root cause and work with stakeholders to creatively effect the optimal solution.
- Operating outside of areas of expertise and eagerly learn along the way.
- Discover and understand highly technical issues and communicate them to people with no technical background.
Who you are:
- You enjoy troubleshooting complex systems and building tooling to make troubleshooting easier.
- You have the ability to detect subtle but serious dangers in flawed designs.
- You have strong communication skills with developers as well as non-technical stakeholders.
- You're hungry to learn new languages and tools quickly. Examples include C#, T-SQL, Vertica, React - but there are many technologies across The Trade Desk platform that will leverage.
- You're adept at assessing business value - knowing when it's time to let it go and when it's time to keep digging in.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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