or apply directly on The Trade Desk's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days The Trade Desk's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 5% of The Trade Desk's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at The Trade Desk
- high 159 stale, 3 reposted of 159 open
- Hiring momentum
- 290 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from The Trade Desk's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for The Trade Desk.
About this role
As a Sr Software Engineer on the Backend API Platform team at The Trade Desk, you will design, build, and operate user-facing APIs that support the Ventura Smart TV operating system. Your role includes managing identity and access models, ensuring system reliability, and setting developer-experience standards for other teams. You will also be responsible for the operational excellence of the services, including observability and incident response.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of The Trade Desk as an employer.
What you need
- Extensive experience designing and operating user-facing APIs in production
- Background in identity and access management
- Hands-on experience with API tooling
- Track record of end-to-end ownership of production services
- Experience owning a shared platform that other engineering teams build on
- Strong programming skills in a modern statically typed backend language
Nice to have
- Experience building production services in Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong experience running services on Kubernetes and AWS at scale
- Experience with a production OIDC identity provider
- Experience with device-attestation or public-key device-identity flows
- Familiarity with event-driven systems for telemetry or ad pipelines
What you get
- 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
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies listed for the backend language, but strong programming skills are required
- The role involves significant responsibility for operational excellence, which may require on-call duties
- The position is described as being part of a small team within a larger organization, which may impact resources and support
Summarised from The Trade Desk's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by The Trade Desk on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
More roles at The Trade Desk
- Lead Principal Technical Account ManagerNew York
- Director, Client ServicesTokyo
- Associate Business Development DirectorTokyo
- Senior Programmatic Account ManagerWashington DC
- FP&A Associate Manager, Product FinanceBellevue; New York; San Francisco; Seattle
- Director, Client Services (Auto)Los Angeles
- Lead Associate Account DirectorNew York
- Sr Director, Product Management - VenturaOSSan Jose