The Trade Desk is a global technology company seeking a Staff or Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join their Developer Experience team. The role involves building AI-powered developer platforms that accelerate engineering velocity and improve developer workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in developer platform/productivity teams
- Proven experience integrating AI/LLM-based tools into production systems
- Strong backend development skills in C#/Java, Python, Go and experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS/Kubernetes, Databricks)
- Deep understanding of GenAI techniques including MCP, RAG, prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning
- Experience building scalable, robust services and developer-facing tools
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
Benefits
- 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
- 13 paid holidays per year