Staff Software Engineer, The Trade Desk
SWAT
Data-first media buying platform
Job no longer available
Data-first media buying platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help brands drive growth and we do that by unleashing their full potential of customers data-driven advertising.
Role
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 we 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
- You have a sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects. You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
- You understand engineering fundamentals. At our scale, many off-the-shelf techniques and existing technologies (open source and enterprise) simply don't work. You are able to work from first principles to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment
- You are a broadly skilled engineer, accustomed to developing web services. You have experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers
- You have a product-focused mindset. You have the passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and push forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making
- You work with confidence and without ego. Our engineers have deep knowledge and exercise a high degree of leadership in their daily work. You have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right. You are also adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates
- You value, seek out, and foster diversity. We are a global team from many diverse backgrounds, with different experiences and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be skilled at finding and building from common ground
- You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done". What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We don't need engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Effective advertising in the digital age is almost impossible without the use of data to drive targeting, with first-party data commonly being used for such purposes. However, making use of such data can be difficult without the right analytic tools, and executing advertisement campaigns that make use of it can be even more challenging.
The Trade Desk provides a demand-side marketplace for building digital media campaigns, allowing businesses to plan and buy digital media, harness the power of their data, and customize publishing through APIs. The marketplace partners with over 225 data, inventory, brand safety, and publisher businesses to provide its services, whilst offering expert digital marketing advice and an e-learning platform called Edge Academy.
Whilst other advertisement marketplaces are available to businesses, The Trade Desk stands out with its approach of not only providing companies with the business partnerships they need but also advising and educating them on how to utilize them effectively. Its latest offering, Galileo, enables advertisers to onboard and activate their first-party data quickly and easily, bringing direct integrations with CRM, CDP and clean room providers, including Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Habu, InfoSum, LiveRamp, Salesforce and Snowflake.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2016
$60m
SERIES C
Feb 2014
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $82.5m
Company HQ
Downtown Ventura, Ventura, CA
Leadership
Jeff Green
(Founder & CEO)Previously founded King of Search and served as the COO of Ad Exchange at AdECN/Microsoft.
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