Senior Software Engineer - Data Transparency

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.

What we do

Our Senior 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.

The Data Platform team is responsible for enabling the business to create powerful and efficient insights from data. In this role you will be working cross‑functionally with data engineers, data analysts, solution architects and business intelligence to design and implement optimized datasets that accelerate innovation. This team will also be responsible for building the framework and guardrails to make sure our datasets are high quality, compliant, and stable.

Lastly you will be systemically identifying and implementing fundamental improvements to how we utilize data while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

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.

At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. This means user experience can make or break our business - our users must have all the flexibility to harness our system's growing power and present meaningful insight from the petabytes of data streaming through our platform with unparalleled ease.

Our system performs all day, every day, serving global traffic. We deliver features to improve the clients' abilities to make real‑time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple‑to‑use interfaces and high‑performance data interactions. We work in a highly collaborative environment with user experience and product management organizations to ensure consistent, modern designs as well as the right balance of requirements to improve the users' day‑to‑day lives.

Our front‑end developers work up and down the stack (client to server) to deliver these world‑class experiences.

What you’ll do

Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission:

• Shaping the vision and execution of how we manage data across its lifecycle - from curated internal datasets to powering production features or privacy‑centric exports for external partners.

• Building solutions that will help enable data transparency throughout the org through establishing processing that improve our overall metadata and data lineage.

• Designing and owning core, foundational datasets that reduce redundant and costly downstream transformations across the data ecosystem.

• Collaborating closely with Legal, Security, and Governance teams to ensure responsible and compliant usage of data as a steward of our internal data platform.

• Helping define and uphold standards for data quality,…