Lead Senior NoSQL Engineer

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.

We are looking to hire a Lead NoSQL Database Engineer to join our engineering team to continue building our data‑driven platform and support database related activities. The Trade Desk leverages Aerospike to perform many real time activities, translating to over 75 million queries per second with a p99 latency under 1 millisecond on the back end! Additionally, our adoption of MongoDB and Kafka is enabling developers to move quicker, making them our fastest‑growing technologies.

What you’ll do:

• Operations for Aerospike, Kafka, and Mongo.
• You will be a point of contact to review new use cases, answer questions, and respond to production issues while participating in an oncall rotation.
• Learn to be a NoSQL SME. You do not need experience to apply – we will train you.
• Lead a team to influence, manage, and plan work streams, systems, and data structures at scale within a global ecosystem, spanning multiple infrastructure providers (cloud and traditional datacenters).
• Encourage, improve, and build upon infrastructure automation in a way that works with stateful systems at scale.
• Benchmark and analyze next generation hardware offerings.
• Create and maintain alarm definitions that prevent issues, adjusting alarm definitions to prevent alert fatigue.

Who you are:

• Leadership experience and ability to mentor.
• Domain knowledge in one or more of the following: Physical (on‑prem) server internals, their management and operation, Linux operating system, Performing testing and tuning.

• Databases (relational or otherwise)
• Ansible
• Prometheus
• Kubernetes
• Python/Ruby/Rust/Bash/Golang/C#

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 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to making our job application process accessible to everyone and to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

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