From brand building to performance marketing, our omnichannel platform was built with one goal: helping you reach yours.
About the role
You'll be an end-to-end owner of the systems this team runs — designing, building, operating, monitoring, and setting the standards other inherit. As a member of the Infrastructure team, you'll be responsible for the scalability, performance, reliability, and visibility of every cloud service powering Ventura TV OS. In addition to the core responsibilities of a backend engineer, you will:
What they're looking for
- A sustained track record of self-directed, end-to-end ownership of complex, high-impact projects — you think beyond the immediate task of understanding the "why."
- Strong engineering fundamentals and first-principles thinking. At our scale, many off-the-shelf tools and techniques don't work out of the box, and you can evaluate and adapt solutions to a unique environment
- Commercial development experience in a modern backend language (Node.js/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, or C#)
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating cloud services and/or infrastructure in production, at a meaningful scale
- Strong background in infrastructure-as-code and automation, and the discipline to get it right
- Hands-on experience instrumenting production services for observability — metrics (e.g., Prometheus), structured logging, distributed tracing — and operating with SLO-driven, on-call rigor
More about this role
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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.
Ventura OS is a new Smart TV operating system being built inside The Trade Desk, the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Where the wider company runs a global-scale DSP,...
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