Sr Software Engineer - High Performance Computing

The Trade Desk • Irvine, CA

18h

About The Position

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 Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who will participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders.
At The Trade Desk we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. This means you will have the opportunity, based on your interests and background, to work on 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.
Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. It’s important we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment that is based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously gaining efficiency.
Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. It’s important we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment that is based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our engineering managers are there to build trust with our talented engineers, to understand their strengths and weaknesses and to ensure they are motivated and productive, all the while having fun and enjoying every day.
What you’ll do:
Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:
About the Role:
The High-Performance Computing team powers core bidding platform by supplying large amounts of user and graph data, ensuring data availability, freshness and quality.
You will be working on system-level optimization in throughput and network bandwidth as well as applying creative probabilistic algorithms to support future scale of user targeting data. You will be responsible for ensuring health and scalability the user data infrastructure of as our platform evolves.
We expect our engineers to be end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of software lifecycle, including research, experimentation, architecture, coding, quality assurance, monitoring, maintenance, continuous optimization and automation.
We have dozens of mission-focused teams working across a wide spectrum of technological challenges. You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to work on 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.
Senior Engineers contribute to more than our product – they build up our team. Through a combination of mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams, they make others better and raise the bar for those around them.
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.
Who you are:
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, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6+ years’ professional experience in high impact software development environment
• Hands-on experience with a variety of platforms and technologies: .NET Core & C#, Java, Linux, Networking, Streaming Systems, NoSQL databases, Distributed Systems
• A candidate with deep expertise at the intersection of distributed system, high-performance computing, math and advertising, ideally someone who has built large-scale distributed systems and understands ads ecosystem.
• Understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices.
• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in a computer-science or relevant engineering related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for planning and execution of initiatives, guiding and assigning work for other team members, but not necessarily as a people manager.

Benefits

• All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
• The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions.
• Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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 for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year.
• Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level