Senior Real-Time Bidding & Price Optimization Engineer

The Trade Desk; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Performance Automation team in a hybrid Boulder, CO role. You will build ML model pipelines and ETL frameworks to process massive data, and integrate models into our bidding infrastructure for fast, reliable performance.

You will contribute to debugging, monitoring, and real-time adjustments of the bidding system, with opportunities to work on large-scale distributed systems or machine learning projects across the tech stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development in high-scale environments.
• Experience with multiple platforms/tech including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, .NET Core, Java, SQL Server, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine ML model pipelines and ETL frameworks handling huge data scales.
• Integrate models into bidding infrastructure for low-latency, high-performance execution.
• Develop debugging and analytical tools to monitor and adjust real-time bidding systems.
• Collaborate across teams to design distributed systems and microservices.

Skills

7+ years software development

Agile development

SOA design

Distributed systems

Leadership

Evidence-based thinking

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Spark

.NET Core

Java

SQL Server

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Performance Automation team in a hybrid Boulder, CO role. You will build ML model pipelines and ETL frameworks to process massive data, and integrate models into our bidding infrastructure for fast, reliable performance.

You will contribute to debugging, monitoring, and real-time adjustments of the bidding system, with opportunities to work on large-scale distributed systems or machine learning projects across the tech stack.