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# Senior Software Engineer - Data & Distributed Systems

- **Company:** The Trade Desk
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,900.0 - $228,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Databricks, Microservices
- **Published:** June 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://seeker-sp.worksourcewa.com/jobview/GetJob.aspx?JobID=293459425

## About the Role

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role.

 * You have 7+ years of software development and engineering experience.
 * You have experience using Vertica, Snowflake or Databricks (or similar data platform technologies)
 * You have experience in the following nice-to-have areas: building microservices, Cloud, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
 * You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
 * You can communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.
 * You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
 * You have strong experience working with distributed systems.
 * You have expertise in a backend programming language such as C#, Java, or Python.
 * You have 7+ years of software development and engineering experience.
 * You have experience using Vertica, Snowflake or Databricks (or similar data platform technologies)
 * You have experience in the following nice-to-have areas: building microservices, Cloud, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
 * You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
 * You can communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.
 * You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
 * You have strong experience working with distributed systems.
 * You have expertise in a backend programming language such as C#, Java, or Python.

## Description

What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We don't need engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked.


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