The Trade Desk is hiring a senior software engineer for the Ventura OS Infrastructure team in Bellevue, Washington. The role involves designing, building, operating, and monitoring cloud infrastructure systems supporting Ventura OS, a Smart TV operating system. Responsibilities include managing compute (VMs, Kubernetes), networking, databases (SQL/NoSQL), storage, identity services, and GPU infrastructure. The engineer will ensure scalability, performance, reliability, security, and compliance of cloud services, deliver build infrastructure and developer tooling, own telemetry pipelines, and lead infrastructure migrations. Required qualifications include 6+ years of software engineering experience with cloud platforms or distributed systems, strong backend development skills in Node.js/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, or C#, expertise in infrastructure-as-code, observability, relational and NoSQL databases, and experience mentoring engineers. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, disability coverage, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid sick and vacation time, stock-based compensation, and employee stock purchase plan. Salary range is $137,300 to $251,800 USD.
What you'll do
Design, build, operate, monitor, and set standards for cloud infrastructure systems
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Build, automate, and operate compute (VMs, Kubernetes), networking (VPN, edge services), database (SQL/NoSQL), storage, and identity services
Forecast capacity needs for compute, storage, and GPU resources
Partner with application teams to design, implement, and scale services and infrastructure
Own identity, security, and compliance model for cloud services
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance and cost
Deliver highly available build infrastructure and developer tooling
Own build systems, lab infrastructure, release pipelines, and platform-engineering tooling
Lead GPU infrastructure and model-serving platforms for applied science and AI tools
Own end-to-end telemetry infrastructure including ingestion, processing, data warehousing, and analytics with data privacy and governance
Drive major infrastructure and platform migrations and lead adoption of new tools and standards
Own operational excellence including observability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, documentation, and runbooks
Requirements
6+ years of software engineering experience including cloud platforms or distributed systems
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Self-directed, end-to-end ownership of complex, high-impact projects
Strong engineering fundamentals and first-principles thinking
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 scale
Strong background in infrastructure-as-code and automation
Experience instrumenting production services for observability (metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing)
Operating with SLO-driven, on-call rigor
Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores including safe tenant-scoped data modeling
Experience owning a shared platform and driving adoption of standards
Track record of sound technical decision-making and mentoring engineers
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Comfort scoping and sequencing work under ambiguity
Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependentsRetirement benefits including 401k plan and company matchShort and long-term disability coverageBasic life insuranceWell-being benefitsReimbursement for certain tuition expensesParental leaveSick time of 1 hour per 30 hours workedVacation time up to 120 hours in first year and 160 hours thereafterAround 13 paid holidays per yearEligibility for stock-based compensation grantsVariable compensation-based incentives and commissionsEmployee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchase
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