Senior/Staff Engineer
Company: The Trade Desk
Location: bellevue
Posted on: May 3, 2021
Job Description:
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 600
billionqueriesper day (more than 100Xthe query volume of
searchglobally), our platform operates at unprecedented scale.We
havealsobuilt something even stronger and more valuable: an
award-winning culture based on trust, empathy, collaboration, and
ownership. By working together across typical dividing lines, we
arebetteras a team than any of us could be apart.Do you have a
passion for solvinghardproblems at scale? Are you eager to join a
trust-based, globally-connected team, where your contributions will
make a meaningful difference?Come and see why Fortune Magazine
consistently ranks The Trade Desk among best small-medium sized
workplaces globally.About the Role:OurSenior Engineers are
end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of
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 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,
andinteractive 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.Who We Are Looking For:You have a
sustained track recordof 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. Youare able towork from first principles to evaluate
solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.You are a broadly
skilled engineer,accustomedto developing web services.You have
experience buildingalways-onsystems,workingacrossa
varietyoftechnologiesandservicelayers.You have a product-focused
mindset.You have thepassion andabilitytocontribute tothe process of
discoveringwhat will delight our clients and pushforwardone of the
world's largest and most influentialindustriestowardavision of
openness, transparency,andevidence-baseddecision-making.You work
with confidence and without ego.Our engineers have deep knowledge
and exercise a high degree of leadershipintheir 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 creativethinker,not bound by"the way things have
alwaysbeen done". What you know is less important than howwellyou
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 We Care
About:What and how you can contributeis what'simportant to us. Our
consideration is not limited by thekind of education you have
orthespecific technologies youhave experience with.Variety of
technical challenge is one of the best things about working at The
Trade Desk as an engineer, but we do not expect you to know every
technology we use when you start.What we care aboutis that
youcanlearn quickly and solvecomplex problems using the best
toolsfor the job.Our culture runs much deeper than just having fun
together (though, we do that well too...)- thepeople we want on our
team are trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers,
and gritty pursuers of excellence.Does this sound like you? If so,
we welcome your application and the chance to meet you.#LI-AKThe
Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm
recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate
submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired;
such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk.
The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of
employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and
business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical
or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic
information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under
federal, state, or local law.
Keywords: The Trade Desk, Bellevue , Senior/Staff Engineer, Other , bellevue, Washington
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