Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions

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The Trade Desk is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and build large-scale, distributed systems and custom solutions in programmatic advertising. Responsibilities include driving architecture and design of end-to-end systems, developing custom APIs and backend services, optimizing data storage and API performance, creating data processing workflows, collaborating with data scientists to integrate models, implementing monitoring and observability, and building client-facing applications. Candidates should have 11+ years of software development experience, proficiency in Python, Java, C#, or Scala, strong knowledge of data processing frameworks and big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Kafka, experience with relational and cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Vertica, and a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans with company match, disability coverage, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid sick and vacation time, paid holidays, stock-based compensation, and an employee stock purchase plan. The role is full-time and located in Bellevue, Washington.