Support Engineer
Quick Summary
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.
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…
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…
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.
The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands, and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media-buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency.
So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious into the world (and have some fun doing it), then we want to talk.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →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
- 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.
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.
Please reach out to us at accommodations@thetradedesk.com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.
When you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions. Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact our hiring decisions.
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Listing Details
- Posted
- May 6, 2026
- First seen
- May 6, 2026
- Last seen
- May 8, 2026
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- Trust Level
- 79%
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- May 6, 2026
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