Senior Software Engineer - MQE

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet— from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world's brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges—from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you're driven to solve meaningful challenges, we'd love to meet you.

The Team: Marketplace Quality Engineering

Every second, our bidder evaluates millions of ad opportunities across thousands of publishers and supply paths. Not all of that supply is created equal—some of it is duplicated, some is structurally inaccessible, and some degrades advertiser outcomes. The Marketplace Quality Engineering team exists to make sure our platform is buying the right impressions, not just more impressions.

We own the systems that assess, measure, and optimize supply quality across the programmatic ecosystem. Our work spans deduplication, supply path analysis, quality modeling, and the tooling that turns those signals into decisions at bid time. The problems are technically deep—think identity resolution across fragmented supply chains, statistical modeling to separate signal from noise, and real‑time decisioning at platform scale—and they have direct, measurable impact on both advertiser outcomes and platform economics.

This is not theoretical work. When we ship a model update, spend distribution across the platform shifts. Our engineering decisions translate directly into tens of millions of dollars of measurable business impact. If you want to build systems where what you ship visibly matters, this is the team.

You will work with C# / .NET as a core strength, alongside Python and SQL where data and automation need it, and partner closely with product, data, and platform teams across time zones.

Who you are:

• You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team across time zones and continents.
• You communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• You have a solid grasp of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
• You have strong experience with distributed systems and data‑heavy backend work (services, pipelines, or both).
• You are proficient in C# / .NET.
• You are productive with modern development tools: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider, and Git.
• You bring 7+ years of software development or engineering experience.

Nice to have (not required)

• GraphQL or REST API design
• Large‑scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark)
• Workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Schema‑based data serialization
• Kubernetes, Kafka
• Database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis)
• Microservices
• Python for data work or automation
• Experience working across large codebases with multiple teams

A wide range of technical opportunities is one of the best parts of engineering at The Trade Desk, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use on day one. What matters is that you learn quickly and solve complex problems with the right tools. What you know today matters less than how well you learn, adapt, and innovate. We are not looking for people who already have all the answers— we want engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and frame the questions we have not yet asked.

Compensation and Benefits

In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non‑discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock‑based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.

The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation‑based incentives and commissions. Expected benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401(k) 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 in the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase Trade Desk stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Base salary range: $124,900 – $228,900 USD.

Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock‑based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.