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How The Trade Desk hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
78 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
41%
Reposted roles
0%

The Trade Desk scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 17 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 41% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 78 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 58 · green card filings: 13
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

Visa details by country

Overview

The Trade Desk is an advertising technology company headquartered in Ventura, California, operating the largest independent demand-side platform that brands and agencies use to buy digital ads across streaming TV, audio, mobile apps and the open web. Co-founded in 2009 by CEO Jeff Green and listed on Nasdaq, it has nearly 4,000 employees in more than 30 offices and is building Ventura OS, a smart TV operating system developed as a startup inside the company. It hires account managers, business development directors, lawyers, finance and commissions analysts, data support analysts and software engineers for its platform and Ventura OS teams.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at The Trade Desk over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
132
Postings analysed
69
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL41%
Python32%
C#20%
JavaScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
Lightning Web Components4%
AutoGen3%
CrewAI3%
Dagger3%
Databases
Snowflake7%
PostgreSQL4%
Amazon Redshift3%
Google BigQuery3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes20%
AWS19%
Azure17%
Tableau9%
AI & ML
Claude10%
LLM6%
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Full The Trade Desk tech stack 132 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$223k
Typical range
$81k – $446k
Open positions
64
61 Jobs
Junior 8.2%
Middle 6.6%
Senior 39.3%
Staff 23%
Principal 4.9%
Architect 18%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $103k $81k – $172k
Middle 4 $227k $206k – $227k
Senior 24 $208k $129k – $446k
Staff 14 $252k $168k – $302k
Principal 3 $335k $208k – $369k
Architect 11 $252k $170k – $335k
Highest paying role Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS $446k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at The Trade Desk By role, level and city, against the market · 64 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
83
18 opened / 22 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
74 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
23% ▲
Marketing
19% ▲
Product
16% ▲
Backend
13% ▼
HR
5% ▲
Finance
4%
Actively hiring for Marketing (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+10 jobs in a week Oct 2026
New location: Detroit Oct 2026
Added SOAP to stack Oct 2026
Added Oracle to stack Oct 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack Oct 2026
Added Oracle ERP to stack Oct 2026
Added Zendesk to stack Oct 2026
Added ServiceNow to stack Oct 2026
Added OpenSearch to stack Oct 2026
Added ElasticSearch to stack Oct 2026
Added Recommender Systems to stack Oct 2026
New location: Hamburg Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
27
Hiring now
22
Countries
12
Busiest office
Ventura
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Ventura United States
HQ
Ventura
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff $140k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Frontend, Support
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
New York United States
Sales office
San Francisco
40 open roles 32 posted in 90 days 15% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $224k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Sales, Legal
seen since Aug 2024 job postings
San Francisco United States
Sales office
San Francisco
17 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 6% engineering 200-500 est. staff $231k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Legal, Sales
seen since Mar 2025 job postings
Los Angeles United States
Sales office
Los Angeles
15 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 200-500 est. staff $222k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Sales, Marketing
seen since Mar 2025 job postings
Bellevue United States
Engineering / R&D
Bellevue (10900)
10 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 200-500 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, HR
seen since Aug 2025 careers board, job postings
Chicago United States
Sales office
Chicago
10 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 200-500 est. staff $217k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Legal, Sales
seen since Mar 2025 careers board, job postings
San Jose United States
Engineering / R&D
San Jose
9 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 22% engineering 50-200 est. staff $275k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Backend, Leadership
seen since Mar 2025 job postings
Seattle United States
Sales office
Bellevue
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 50-200 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, HR, Backend
seen since May 2026 job postings
Irvine United States
Corporate office
8 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 50-200 est. staff $245k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Product, HR
seen since Mar 2025
London United Kingdom
Sales office
London
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $229k Avg Salary
hires for Design, Product, Sales
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Shanghai China
Sales office
Shanghai
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance, HR, Marketing
seen since May 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
Sales office
Sydney
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR, Operations
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Singapore
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Communications, HR
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Hamburg Germany
Sales office
Hamburg
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Sales
seen since May 2026 careers board, job postings
Tokyo Japan
Sales office
Tokyo
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Seoul South Korea
Seoul
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Administrative
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Washington United States
Sales office
Washington DC
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Denver United States
Regional office
Denver
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $252k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Sep 2026 careers board
Detroit United States
Sales office
Detroit
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
Shenzhen China
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
seen since Jul 2026
Munich Germany
Sales office
Hamburg
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Geneva Switzerland
Sales office
Switzerland (Home Office)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Home Office (Dubai)
careers board
Amsterdam Netherlands
Regional office
Home Office (Netherlands)
careers board
Bengaluru India
Regional office
Bangalore
careers board
Boston United States
Regional office
Boston
careers board
Culver City United States
Regional office
Culver City
careers board
Earlier presence
New Delhi, India 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Boulder, United States 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026

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