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About the Role
The User Trail team owns the analytics and observability platform that captures how people use The Trade Desk's products. This event data powers product analytics and an AI-powered internal tool for investigating platform events. The team works closely with other departments to ensure data quality and accessibility, making a significant impact on troubleshooting and decision-making across the company.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve tools for data exploration, including self-service dashboards and an AI-powered assistant.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery for the event tracking and data platform, focusing on data accessibility for non-engineering teams.
- Extend governed access to data for various company departments, managing tradeoffs for self-service usage.
- Act as a technical expert for system components like client-side SDKs, ingestion pipelines, or data warehouse layers.
- Partner with support, trading, business, and product teams to understand data needs and translate them into features.
- Enhance team quality and testing practices through mentorship, code review, and design discussions.
- Contribute to technical design decisions and shape the evolution of team tools and processes.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on experience building and operating backend services or data pipelines at scale.
- Comfortable owning projects from design through production.
- Experience with or strong interest in modern data warehouse/lakehouse platforms, event-driven pipelines, or SDK development.
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to be a go-to expert for guidance in an area of expertise.
- Focus on reliability and correctness, considering edge cases, monitoring, and failure modes.
- Strong collaboration skills across teams and disciplines.
- Active role in mentoring and improving colleagues through code review and pairing.
- Ability to take loosely defined problems and create concrete, well-scoped plans.
- Capacity to learn quickly and solve complex problems using optimal tools.
- Inventiveness in finding novel solutions to complex and future challenges.
Skills
- Backend services development
- Data pipelines development
- Data warehouse/lakehouse platforms
- Event-driven pipelines
- SDK development
- Client application development
- Technical design
- Mentorship
- Code review
- Problem-solving
- Communication
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
About the Company
- The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising.
- Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet.
- Advertising powers the content people love, supporting trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators.
- Brands and agencies rely on us to reach customers and grow businesses responsibly.
- The scale of our platform presents unique technical challenges in processing massive datasets and building reliable global systems.
- We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build learning teams.
- We are driven to solve meaningful challenges.
Equal Opportunity
- The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer.
- All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
- Please reach out to us at accommodations@thetradedesk.com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs.