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Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet - from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. \nAdvertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.\nThe scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges - from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.\nWhat you’ll do \nTechnical leadership \nDefine the technical vision and architectural roadmap for The TradeDesk’s partner-facing platform \nLead the design of a scalable platform spanning federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, SDKs, modular micro-frontends, integration workflows, developer tools, and polished web experiences. \nMake hands-on contributions through prototypes, production code, architecture reviews, and code reviews across TypeScript/React front ends and C#/.NET GraphQL services. \nEstablish standards for schema and API consistency, backward compatibility, authorization, security, privacy, reliability, observability, Kubernetes-based operations, and SQL data modeling. \nSimplify the partner journey from discovery and onboarding through testing, certification, launch, and ongoing optimization. \nTurn shared needs across advertisers, data providers, publishers, and sellers into reusable platform services and front-end components rather than one-off integrations. \nGuide cross-team decisions on schema governance, platform tooling, and architecture, balancing usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed. \nExecution and influence \nPartner with Product Management, Design, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, technical approach, and delivery priorities. \nBreak down ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and risks. \nDrive alignment across teams that contribute to or consume the platform, communicating technical decisions and trade-offs clearly. \nDefine and improve measures of platform health and partner success, including integration time, adoption, API reliability, and developer experience. \nPromote high standards for production of readiness, operational ownership, and continuous improvement. \nEngineering excellence \nRaise the engineering bar through thoughtful design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and practical guidance. \nCoach engineers in system design, debugging, delivery, and operating services in production. \nLead by example as a trusted, hands-on technical partner who helps teams solve difficult problems and make durable decisions. \nFoster a collaborative, inclusive environment where engineers share knowledge, challenge assumptions constructively, and take ownership of outcomes. \nWho you are \nYou do not need to meet every qualification below. We are interested in candidates who demonstrate most of these capabilities and can learn the rest. \nYou have a sustained record of leading complex, high-impact software initiatives from definition through production operation. \nYou act as a Staff-level technical authority while remaining capable of and willing to contribute directly to the codebase. \nYou have experience leading engineers with different levels of experience and helping senior engineers and technical leads grow. \nYou have led initiatives involving several engineering and business teams, particularly where shared platform decisions affected teams outside your immediate organization. \nYou can turn an ambiguous product vision into a coherent architecture and an executable delivery plan. \nYou have strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms, service-oriented architecture, and modern software delivery practices. \nYou have experience designing durable APIs - GraphQL especially, including federation and schema evolution - as well as REST or event-driven integration interfaces. \nYou are experienced in modern frontend development: TypeScript, React, component-driven architecture, and data-rich single-page applications, ideally at monorepo scale. \nYou are proficient in C# and TypeScript/JavaScript, and comfortable with SQL and relational data modeling (SQL Server or similar). \nYou understand the needs of developers integrating with an external platform, including authentication and authorization, documentation, testing, versioning, observability, and supportability. \nYou can evaluate technical trade-offs involving usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed. \nYou communicate effectively with engineers, product leaders, commercial stakeholders, and external partners. \nYou lead with confidence and low ego. You advocate for well-reasoned decisions, invite competing perspectives, and change course when the evidence supports it. \nYou have significant professional software engineering experience, typically 10 or more years, or an equivalent record of technical impact. \nYou have experience directly managing engineers or a clear record of comparable people leadership. \nYou have a degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. \nExperience that would be especially valuable \nBuilding developer platforms, app marketplaces, or self-service onboarding systems. \nDeveloping full-stack applications and data-rich partner experiences with React and .NET (or comparable stacks). \nWorking with federated GraphQL (Apollo Federation, HotChocolate, or similar) and schema governance across multiple teams. \nBuilding or operating micro-frontend architectures and large frontend monorepos with modern build tooling (Bazel, pnpm workspaces, webpack/Vite). \nCreating public APIs, SDKs, technical documentation systems, sandboxes, or automated certification tooling. \nWorking with identity, authorization, consent, data governance, or privacy-sensitive systems - for example, identity solutions such as UID2/EUID, persona-based access control, or entitlement systems. \nOperating distributed services on Kubernetes and containers across multiple public clouds (AWS and Azure), with relational databases, feature-flag and experimentation systems, and modern observability tooling (Prometheus, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, or similar). \nWorking in advertising technology or with publishers, data providers, measurement partners, retailers, brands, or agencies. \nUsing AI-assisted experiences to improve documentation discovery, integration support, or developer productivity. \nIn accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. \nThe Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.\nNote: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave\nAt the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is\n$137,300—$251,800 USD\nAs an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.\nPlease reach out to us at  to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process. \nWhen you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions. 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