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Senior Software Engineer - Observability & IRM

The Trade Desk · Boulder; Denver; Seattle

Posted 29 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
29 days
The Trade Desk's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
5% of The Trade Desk's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at The Trade Desk
high
97 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
2026-09-17

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 Senior Software Engineer on the Observability & Incident Response Management team at The Trade Desk, you will work on incident management tooling and automation around the incident lifecycle, including alerting and escalation. Your role will involve evaluating and migrating the logging stack, enhancing the internal developer portal, and improving alert quality tooling to provide better insights for engineers.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
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

  • Experience building and operating production infrastructure or internal developer tooling
  • Comfort working across the stack, including distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability pipelines, and web-based tooling
  • Familiarity with observability concepts: logging, alerting, on-call workflows
  • Strong debugging instincts
  • Clear communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools
  • Familiarity with Sumo Logic or other log management platforms
  • Prior work on developer portals or service catalog tooling (Backstage, OpsLevel, etc.)
  • Experience with Kubernetes at scale
  • A deep understanding of HunnyPt

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 mention of the technology stack beyond observability tools and Kubernetes
  • The role emphasizes learning and problem-solving over existing knowledge of all technologies used
  • The base salary range is provided, but actual compensation may vary based on several factors

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Listed by The Trade Desk on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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