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Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions

The Trade Desk · Bellevue

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 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.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
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

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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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