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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services - **Company:** The Trade Desk - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $124,900.0 - $228,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Systems, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Ansible, Service Discovery, TypeScript, Alwayson, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Storage Technologies, Code Testing, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Golang - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ad8fea7a3cbb90c8 ## About the Role * Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages: TypeScript, Go/Golang, or C# * Designing, developing, deploying, and supporting service-oriented applications * Domain knowledge in one or more of the following: + Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Backstage + Kafka, Service Discovery (i.e. Consul) + AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) + Linux operating system internals, filesystems, storage technologies, protocols, and networking stack + GitOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation, * An understanding of systems design as well as the advantages or drawbacks to various approaches. * Experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers. * 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. ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer with a specialization in Infrastructure you will: * Create and maintain in-house service oriented solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run a globally distributed system handling over 15 million requests per second * Help product teams ship more efficiently and safely through automation, tools, and processes which can be used by all teams at The Trade Desk. * Ensure supportability by innovating solutions for our infrastructure through building, implementing, operating, and adding features to self-service tooling and automation. * Participate in root-cause analysis and postmortem discussions to effectively drive long-term operational health improvements. * Analyze for process gaps and implement solutions to speed up execution and reduce manual toil. 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