The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a
better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. 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. Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally. What we do Our approach to infrastructure is in the midst of an exciting transformation toward SOA and we need your help! Up until now we've grown to a massive scale via a centralized Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. As embracers of change, we've decided that the best route forward is through smaller, focused teams. Now that we've decentralized, we're working on a building a large Platform-as-a-Service Kubernetes estate in our ever-expanding physical datacenter footprint as well as multiple cloud providers. Transformations are challenging but they provide multiple opportunities for a positive impact on a growing company. At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. This means user experience can make or break our business - our users must have all the flexibility to harness our system's growing power and present meaningful insight from the petabytes of data streaming through our platform with unparalleled ease. Our system performs all day, every day, serving global traffic. We deliver features to improve the clients' abilities to make real-time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple-to-use interfaces and high-performance data interactions. We work in a highly collaborative environment with user experience and product management organizations to ensure consistent, modern designs as well as the right balance of requirements to improve the users' day-to-day lives. Our front-end developers work up and down the stack (client to server) to deliver these world-class experiences. Whatyou'll do: As a Software Engineer with a specialization in Kubernetes you will: Provide solutions at scale for the infrastructure required to run aglobally distributed system handling over 16 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 ourheterogeneousKubernetes ecosystem. Participate in root-cause analysis and postmortem discussions to effectivelydrive long-term operational health improvements. Analyze for process gaps andimplement solutions to speed up executionand reduce manual toil. While not strictly a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role, there are elements of the mindset that apply-- configuration management, capacity modeling, monitoring, data collection and analysis, key performance indicator definitions, and tracking. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation. We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity. Who you are: 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: Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in any of the following languages:Python, Go / Golang, Typescript, Ruby, or C# Designing, developing, deploying Kubernetes clusters in support of service-oriented applications Domain knowledge or a strong motivation to learn several of the following: Kubernetes Control Plane internals, addon extensions, scaling tools Provisioning and deployment tooling for Kubernetes Linux operating system internals, filesystems, storage technologies, protocols, and networking stack Private cloud operations at scale Experience with serverless infrastructure as a service is a huge plus, especially Kubernetes in traditional datacenters Key Attributes Technical Contributions: An understanding of systems design, 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. Welcoming of ideas and understanding perspectives that are different from your own and an interest in seeking and building a common ground. You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been