Software Engineer II - Data Workflow

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.

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 also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally‑connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small‑to‑medium‑sized workplaces globally.

Our Software Engineers are end‑to‑end owners who have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and delivering data‑focused products for our stakeholders.

At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the back‑end infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality s means whether we are building parts of our client‑facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently.

Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our back‑end developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization and scale challenges in everything we do.

The Trade Desk Software Engineers are best described as end‑to‑end owners.

• You will participate actively in all aspects of product strategy – from designing, building, and delivering products for our clients.
• We have dozens of individual, mission‑focused teams working across a wide spectrum of technological challenges.
• You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to lead engineers that focus on building 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.
• Software Engineers contribute to more than our product – they help build up our team. Through a combination of mentoring and technical leadership of local teams, you will make others better and raise the bar for those around you.

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.

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though, we do that well too...). We take pride in our engineers being trust‑builders,…