Senior Software Engineer - Release

The Trade Desk
$124,900-$225,000 USD
life insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, New York, New York
Jul 15, 2025
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: You will have the opportunity to work with the team that is responsible for how we ship our software to production. This role will incorporate stakeholder needs across the engineering organization to drive positive improvements to our overall developer productivity and our release process and provide world class tooling for deployments to the TTD engineering team. You will own features end-to-end, and work on long-term strategic work to enhance existing features or tools and continuously improve efficiency of our deployment processes. This team works along with other teams focused on the remaining aspects of the SDLC lifecycle and hence you will be partnering with them to drive changes to our systems.Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do. What you'll do: Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is: * Develop continuous deployment (CD) platform at scale. You're building this platform for anyone who wants to develop software across the company, not for one team or one project. This platform needs to be cloud native (CNCF standard), extensible, configurable, and makes the deployment process intuitive for anyone across the company. * Build new features and components in our developer tools, processes, and services * Improve existing features and components to increase efficiency across our engineering organization * Review code from your peers and grow others through example, mentorship, and teaching * Drive complex changes involving multiple components and complex systems run by other software engineers * Build components and processes that are used by other engineers across the organization * Leverage data to analyze opportunities and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency * We are a global team with diverse 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). Wetake 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, butwe believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding inthis role: You care deeply about improving developer experience, tools, and engineering processes You have 5+ years of software development engineering experience You have experience with using or extending ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, or any cloud native CI/CD platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) You have experience with cloud / virtualization environments (AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, et al) You have a Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience. Not everyone has the same level of access to opportunities. What is most important to us is what and how you can contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you have You drive innovative solutions while being sensitive to the current needs and realities of your fellow engineers You have experience in leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity You have experience of working with non-technical stakeholders You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas: Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), ideally both as a consumer and as someone who has enabled such solutions in their past roles Proficiency with a modern language such as C# or Java or Golang or Python Experience working in large codebases, organizing and refactoring Experience with configuration management A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. 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 sales-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. Click here to learn more. Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $124,900 — $225,000 USD As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to making our job application process accessible to everyone and toproviding reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability or medical condition and requirean accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process,please contact us ataccommodations@thetradedesk.com You can also contact us using the same email address if you have a disability and need assistance to access our Company website. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and specify the nature of your accessibility issue.