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Sr Software Engineer - Backend API Platform

The Trade Desk · Seattle

Posted about 3 months ago

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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.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
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

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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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