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The Trade Desk

Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions

AI summary of the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Custom Solutions team at The Trade Desk, a small high-impact team building end-to-end custom solutions that extend the platform's capabilities for advertisers.

What you’ll do

  • Drive architecture and design for end-to-end systems within Custom Solutions, influencing platform patterns and best practices across teams
  • Develop custom APIs and backend services that integrate seamlessly with the core platform
  • Optimize data storage, retrieval, and API performance for global-scale programmatic workloads
  • Create and maintain data processing workflows and automation solutions to support large-scale advertiser operations

What you’ll bring

  • 11+ years of software development experience, with significant experience building and scaling production systems
  • Deep experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems across client-facing applications, backend services, and data workflows
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Scala
  • Solid understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with relational and cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Vertica)

Technologies

Python · Java · C# · Scala · Snowflake · Vertica · Apache Spark · Kafka

About The Trade Desk

Independent DSP that lets advertisers and agencies buy, optimize, and measure programmatic ads across open-internet channels, with CTV, AI, and identity infrastructure.

Public · 2000–5000 people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. What we do At The Trade Desk, we design and build custom solutions that extend our platform’s capabilities, with a focus on quality, reusability, and customer success. From client facing applications and backend services to data science models, workflow automation, reports, and large-scale data workflows, we deliver end-to-end systems that drive advanced campaign optimization, actionable analytics, and robust data operations at global scale. We are a small, high impact team that strategically enables advertisers to unlock advanced capabilities, we solve unique partner needs, shape technical patterns that benefit the wider platform. Whether it’s enabling advanced bidding strategies, streamlining data pipelines, or creating bespoke reporting experiences, we build with quality and
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