Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Infrastructure

Software Engineer Specialization In Kubernetes

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.

Our approach to infrastructure is in the midst of an exciting transformation toward SOA and we need your help! Up until now we've grown to a massive scale via a centralized Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. As embracers of change, we've decided that the best route forward is through smaller, focused teams. Now that we've decentralized, we're working on building a large Platform-as-a-Service Kubernetes estate in our ever-expanding physical datacenter footprint as well as multiple cloud providers. Transformations are challenging but they provide multiple opportunities for a positive impact on a growing company. At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. This means user experience can make or break our business - our users must have all the flexibility to harness our system's growing power and present meaningful insight from the petabytes of data streaming through our platform with unparalleled ease. Our system performs all day, every day, serving global traffic. We deliver features to improve the clients' abilities to make real-time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple-to-use interfaces and high-performance data interactions. We work in a highly collaborative environment with user experience and product management organizations to ensure consistent, modern designs as well as the right balance of requirements to improve the users' day-to-day lives. Our front-end developers work up and down the stack (client to server) to deliver these world-class experiences.

What you'll do: As a Software Engineer with a specialization in Kubernetes you will:

• Provide solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run a globally distributed system handling over 16 million requests per second.
• Help product teams ship more efficiently and safely through automation, tools, and processes which can be used by all teams at The Trade Desk.
• Ensure supportability by innovating solutions for our infrastructure through building, implementing, operating, and adding features to our heterogeneous Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Participate in root-cause analysis and postmortem discussions to effectively drive long-term operational health improvements.
• Analyze for process gaps and implement solutions to speed up execution and reduce manual toil.
• While not strictly a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role, there are elements of the mindset that apply-- configuration management, capacity modeling, monitoring, data collection and analysis, key performance indicator definitions, and tracking.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

We are a global team with different 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. Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together.