The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!

We are looking to hire a Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team to continue building out our data-driven platform and support database related activities. Do you enjoy tuning, performance testing and troubleshooting, writing automation, and evaluating/influencing NoSQL database use cases? Does the idea of new technologies, hardware, and tuning systems to cutting edge performance sound fun to you?

With integrations into every major advertising exchange, we handle well over 4 trillion requests every month and growing – that's more page views and queries than Facebook, Google Search, and Google's entire network of websites combined – all serviced in single-digit-ms response times. Are you interested in working with fast data at scale? Do you want to push the edges of scale and responsiveness?

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Learn to be an Aerospike SME. You don’t need experience with Aerospike – we will train you. You will be a point of contact to review new use cases, answer questions, and respond to production issues. Aerospike is our standard for NoSQL database use cases and The Trade Desk is one of the largest Aerospike users in the world.
• Be a member of our high-performance computing team that is responsible for managing and planning systems and data structures at scale in a global ecosystem, across multiple infrastructure providers (cloud and traditional datacenter).
• Be responsible for provisioning new clusters, discussing and reviewing new use cases, capacity planning and management of the clusters - all with an eye on automation and scaling your work. Our NoSQL systems run at scale, with over 800 systems servicing near 4 trillion requests under 1ms daily - automation is key.
• Encourage, improve, and build upon automation using Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, and other languages/tools.
• Benchmark and analyze hardware offerings to potentially improve performance or TCO of clusters globally or for niche use cases. Always keep an eye out for the next great hardware to test.
• Perform regular cluster maintenance as needed by maintaining/developing necessary automation, apply updates such as kernel patches and daemon upgrades.
• Create alarm definitions to prevent issues and adjust/remove alarm definitions to prevent alert fatigue.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation (currently this is only around 3 hours/month).

 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages: Python, Golang, Ruby, Scala, or C#
• Domain knowledge in one or more of the following:
  
  • Linux operating system
  • Performing testing and tuning
  • GitOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef
• Nice-To-Have:
  • NoSQL/Database knowledge is a huge plus, but we can teach you.
  • Cloud hosting environment experience
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Prometheus experience

Key Attributes

• Technical Contributions:
• An understanding of data structure design as well as the advantages or drawbacks to various approaches.
• Uses a data driven approach to both daily time investments as well as long-term bets.
• Operationally Efficient:
• Operate in a way that reduces complexity and cuts operational risks with a solid grasp of costs and the return on investment-- of time, implementation, customer impact.
• A track record of making significant and self-directed, contributions to large and impactful projects.
• Actively communicate with your team as well as across the organization to effectively drive toward a unified goal.
• Practical problem solving, superb communication and documentation skills.
• An Empathetic, Objective, Critical Thinker:
• Thinking beyond the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind an objective.
• A welcoming of ideas, and understanding of, perspectives that are different from your own and an interest in seeking and building from a common ground.
• You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done" but are thinking of the questions nobody has thought of and are "yet to be asked". What you know is less important than how well you learn, innovate, collaborate, and adapt.
• As a global team from many diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, you value and seek out paths for fostering diversity.

 

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.