Senior Backend Infra Engineer - Cloud Platform

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

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end Ventura TV OS cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, and identity layers. You will partner with application teams to design, implement, and scale reliable systems, focusing on observability, cost, and performance across a growing platform.

We value deep ownership, strong fundamentals, and a track record of delivering scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to cloud platforms or distributed systems.
• Commercial development experience in modern backend languages (Node.js/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, or C#).
• Strong foundation in observability, metrics, logging, and tracing for production services.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end responsibility for the scalability, performance, reliability, and visibility of Ventura TV OS cloud services.
• Design, build, and operate compute, networking, storage, and identity services using infrastructure-as-code.
• Lead platform migrations and adoption of new tools and standards across the organization.
• Ensure operational excellence with observability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Years of experience

Node.js/TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

Go

C#

Distributed systems

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab

Jenkins

Gerrit

Prometheus

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end Ventura TV OS cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, and identity layers. You will partner with application teams to design, implement, and scale reliable systems, focusing on observability, cost, and performance across a growing platform.

We value deep ownership, strong fundamentals, and a track record of delivering scalable infrastructure.