The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.
Raise your hand if you LOVE ads! Yes, we feel the same… Be a part of the solution, by joining the team that is changing the face of advertising for the better. Founded by the pioneers of real-time bidding (RTB), The Trade Desk has become the fastest growing demand-side platform (DSP) in the industry by offering agencies and their advertisers a best-in-class technology platform that focuses on delivering meaningful and relevant engagement with consumers.
With integrations into every major advertising exchange, we manage well over 4 trillion requests every month and growing – that is 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 big data? Do you want to push the edges of scale and responsiveness? It does not get much bigger or faster than this!
We are looking to hire a Support Engineer who will work in collaboration with our Business and Engineering Teams to ensure top notch API + Technical Support. This candidate should understand web technology, have experience working with and troubleshooting JSON and REST APIs, be an adaptive person and not afraid of complexity.
They will ensure various Enterprise clients are supported effectively by focusing on
1) prevention of technical issues through building QA tests + enhancing error responses and external documentation to help developers resolve their problems themselves,
2) improving internal processes such as monitoring and alarming to catch critical issues quickly, investigating issues to the root cause, and creating helpful internal troubleshooting documentation and
3) collaborating across client-facing and technical teams to ensure changes to APIs are smooth for both internal and external stakeholders, as well as globally within the wider support team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about innovative technology, has not only the existing technical skills to be successful but also the acumen to learn even more; you’ll never run out of things to learn here. You are comfortable being a mediator between account and technology teams, helping both reach solutions on high-priority technical issues. There is plenty of room for advancement in this role within the department or otherwise within our company, both as an independent contributor or leading a team.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a Support Engineer for our Technical Account Management (TAM) team, who are responsible for communication and management of enterprise API clients and third-party partners that use various REST, JSON, GraphQL (GQL) APIs
- Proactive troubleshooting initiatives: focus on prevention of issues (rather than only being reactive and focused only on resolution) such as API QA testing and validation
- Executing and manipulating stored procedures and writing queries in SQL
- Monitor the company’s ticketing case system; answer, troubleshoot and resolve various technical issues escalated by the TAM team and Client Services related to our platform and APIs
- Responsible for owning incidents, including collaborating, and escalating to Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence
- Enhance internal processes such as improving issue visibility for API users and internal stakeholders and improve alerting of priority issues
- Contribute to the company and Support Team’s knowledge base
- Coordinate in-depth training on Support-related tools and processes
- Identify opportunities for improvement within the business and lead projects to champion solutions addressing those gaps or weaknesses
- Light on-call/after-hours support
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year university or relevant substitute experience
- 4 – 6 years relevant work experience in Technical and/or Application Support with strong knowledge of API monitoring and troubleshooting
- Deep curiosity for understanding how things work, especially as it applies to technology and its underlying framework
- Exceptional troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize effectively and collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced, complex, and growing environment
- Mid-level to advanced experience with databases, SQL, API’s – Able to create queries to retrieve records, an understanding of the underlying data structures, an ability to interact with, troubleshoot JSON, REST & GraphQL (GQL) APIs
- Work well in a team, including leading knowledge sharing and training sessions to help junior team members improve
- Experience managing complex datasets, identifying trends within the data, and performing comparisons between multiple data sources
- Experience with Programming languages (HTML, Python, Java, JavaScript) is a plus
- Excels at working independently while aligning, collaborating and contributing towards the global team’s success.
- Knowledge of advertising technology industry is a plus
- Multi-lingual a plus
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.
The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or relevant substitute experience
- 4-6 years relevant work experience in Technical and/or Application Support
- Strong knowledge of API monitoring and troubleshooting (REST, JSON, GraphQL)
- Mid-level to advanced experience with databases and SQL; ability to write queries and understand data structures
- Exceptional troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize effectively and collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- Experience managing complex datasets, identifying trends, and performing cross-source comparisons
- Responsible for on-call/after-hours support duties
- Experience with programming languages (HTML, Python, Java, JavaScript)
- Knowledge of advertising technology industry
- Multi-lingual skills
The Trade Desk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Trade Desk and has not been reviewed or approved by The Trade Desk.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums are often paid in full for employees and dependents, reducing out-of-pocket costs. Coverage includes medical, dental, and vision alongside mental health and wellness support.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Packages commonly include new-hire stock grants, a generous Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and equity refreshers tied to performance. Feedback suggests equity meaningfully boosts total compensation alongside base pay and bonuses.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays, paid sick time, and sabbaticals are available. Paid parental leave and extensive family-planning support broaden time-off and caregiving coverage.
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What We Do
The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. Our mission is to transform media for the benefit of humankind. Our media-buying platform helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for reach, accuracy, and transparency.
Why Work With Us
With up to 11 million queries per second and SLAs in the milliseconds, we’re tackling data and software challenges at massive scale. While we’re growing fast, investing in our value based company culture remains one of our top priorities. If you’re talented, driven, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious, let's talk.
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