The Trade Desk · 7 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $229K/yrThe Trade Desk is transforming the advertising landscape with their innovative media buying platform. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and efficiency of their systems and applications, while actively participating in the design and delivery of reliable infrastructure and tools.
AdvertisingDigital MediaInformation TechnologyInternetMobileNative AdvertisingSocialSoftwareVideo Advertising
Hiring Manager
Alex Duarte
Responsibilities
This is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position, responsible for the reliability, performance, and efficiency of The Trade Desk systems and applications. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering reliable infrastructure and tools for our clients, partners, and employees
The Trade Desk infrastructure is “hybrid” both in operating system (Linux, Windows) and environment (bare metal, cloud). An SRE should be well rounded and “technology agnostic” with a pragmatic approach towards the best tool for the situation. You will have the opportunity to support thousands of hosts throughout the world, with petabyte-scale data challenges
Participating in an agile methodology, you will work closely with your teammates to monitor capacity, replace manual workflows with tools/automation, and evangelize scalable long-term solutions to technical problems
Qualification
Required
You have a passion for efficient operations
You've made significant contributions to large and impactful technical projects
You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
You can code with languages such as C#, Python, Go, Powershell, or Ruby
You design for scale and understand that the only way to scale is to avoid special snowflakes of systems and applications
You manage cattle, not pets
You are a broadly skilled engineer with an interest in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and/or capacity planning
You understand modern architectures and know why Docker and containers are more than just buzzwords
You are able to use traditional configuration management such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform as well as modern infrastructure schedulers like Kubernetes and Mesos
You enjoy working with the latest monitoring and metrics platforms such as Prometheus
You are comfortable working on physical gear or in the cloud
You work with confidence and without ego
You have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right
You are adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs
You value, seek out, and foster diversity
You are a creative thinker, not bound by 'the way things have always been done'
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
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.
Company
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Founded in 2009
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
The Trade Desk has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (57)
2024 (49)
2023 (38)
2022 (39)
2021 (31)
2020 (15)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$257.5MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementBridge BankHermes Growth Partners
2021-07-08Post Ipo Equity
2016-09-21IPO
2016-05-09Debt Financing· $125M
Leadership Team
Jeff Green
CEO
Mitch Waters
Senior Vice President of Client Service APAC
Recent News
2026-01-06
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