Senior Backend Infra Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

The Trade Desk; Bellevue (NY); On-site; USD 137,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with company match

Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a senior infrastructure-focused software engineer to own end-to-end Ventura TV OS systems. You will design, build, operate, and improve cloud services powering Ventura, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Join a small, high-impact team that values mentors, ownership, and delivery discipline. You will influence platform engineering, work across teams, and shape the future of the Ventura OS stack while maintaining security and cost controls.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with cloud/distributed systems
• End-to-end ownership of high-impact projects
• Experience designing and operating cloud services at scale

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end systems for Ventura TV OS infrastructure
• Build, automate, and operate compute, networking, storage, and identity services
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance and cost
• Deliver build infrastructure and developer tooling
• Lead GPU infrastructure and model-serving platforms
• Own telemetry infrastructure and data pipelines
• Drive infrastructure migrations and tool adoption
• Maintain observability, SLOs, on-call readiness, and runbooks

Skills

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Node.js/TypeScript

Go

End-to-end ownership

Observability

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab

Prometheus

PostgreSQL

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a senior infrastructure-focused software engineer to own end-to-end Ventura TV OS systems. You will design, build, operate, and improve cloud services powering Ventura, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Join a small, high-impact team that values mentors, ownership, and delivery discipline. You will influence platform engineering, work across teams, and shape the future of the Ventura OS stack while maintaining security and cost controls.