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 Staff Software Engineer in Custom Solutions at The Trade Desk, you will design and build innovative, data-driven solutions that enhance the platform's capabilities. Your responsibilities will include developing custom APIs, optimizing data workflows, and collaborating with data scientists to integrate models into full-stack systems. You will also drive architecture decisions and ensure the reliability and performance of both frontend and backend systems.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- 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
- Deep experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems across client-facing applications, backend services, and data workflows
- Proven ability to own architecture and technical direction for complex, end-to-end systems
- Strong knowledge of data processing frameworks and workflows, with experience scaling systems for data-intensive workloads
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Scala
- Solid understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with relational and cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Vertica)
- Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka) and best practices for building resilient, high-performance systems
Nice to have
- A background with big data technologies
- Familiarity with full stack development is a plus technical skill set
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 mentioned that the candidate must know upon starting, indicating a learning-oriented environment
- The role involves significant responsibility and ownership over architecture and design, which may be challenging for less experienced candidates
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.
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