Staff Software Architect: Platform & API Leader

The Trade Desk, Inc.; Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

401k with company match

Disability coverage

Paid vacation and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

The Trade Desk in Bellevue, WA is seeking a senior technical leader to define and drive the architecture of our partner-facing platform. You will guide design and implementation across GraphQL, REST, SDKs, micro-frontends, and developer tools, while mentoring engineers and shaping best practices.

You will contribute hands‑on code, participate in architecture reviews, and set standards for security, reliability, and observability across Kubernetes environments.

Qualifications

• You have a sustained record of leading complex, high‑impact software initiatives.
• You act as a Staff‑level technical authority while remaining capable of and willing to contribute directly to the codebase.
• You have experience leading engineers with different levels of experience and helping senior engineers and technical leads grow.
• You have led initiatives involving several engineering and business teams, particularly where shared platform decisions affected teams outside your immediate organization.
• You can turn an ambiguous product vision into a coherent architecture and an executable delivery plan.
• You have significant professional software engineering experience, typically 10 or more years, or an equivalent record of technical impact.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and architectural roadmap for The Trade Desk’s partner-facing platform.
• Lead the design of a scalable platform spanning federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, SDKs, modular micro-frontends, integration workflows, developer tools, and polished web experiences.
• Make hands‑on contributions through prototypes, production code, architecture reviews, and code reviews across TypeScript/React front ends and C#/.NET GraphQL services.
• Establish standards for schema and API consistency, backward compatibility, authorization, security, privacy, reliability, observability, Kubernetes‑based operations, and SQL data modeling.
• Simplify the partner journey from discovery and onboarding through testing, certification, launch, and ongoing optimization.
• Turn shared needs across advertisers, data providers, publishers, and sellers into reusable platform services and front‑end components rather than one‑off integrations.
• Guide cross‑team decisions on schema governance, platform tooling, and architecture, balancing usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, technical approach, and delivery priorities.
• Break down ambiguous, cross‑team problems into clear technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Drive alignment across teams that contribute to or consume the platform, communicating technical decisions and trade‑offs clearly.

Skills

TypeScript/React

C#/.NET

GraphQL

Kubernetes

SQL data modeling

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Frontend architecture

API design

Team leadership

Education

CS degree or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Apollo Federation

Webpack/Vite

OpenTelemetry

Job description

The Trade Desk in Bellevue, WA is seeking a senior technical leader to define and drive the architecture of our partner-facing platform. You will guide design and implementation across GraphQL, REST, SDKs, micro-frontends, and developer tools, while mentoring engineers and shaping best practices.

You will contribute hands‑on code, participate in architecture reviews, and set standards for security, reliability, and observability across Kubernetes environments.