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The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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.
What you'll do
Technical leadership
- Define the technical vision and architectural roadmap for The TradeDesk's partner-facing platform
- Lead the design of a scalable platform spanning federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, SDKs, modular micro-frontends, integration workflows, developer tools, and polished web experiences.
- Make hands-on contributions through prototypes, production code, architecture reviews, and code reviews across TypeScript/React front ends and C#/.NET GraphQL services.
- Establish standards for schema and API consistency, backward compatibility, authorization, security, privacy, reliability, observability, Kubernetes-based operations, and SQL data modeling.
- Simplify the partner journey from discovery and onboarding through testing, certification, launch, and ongoing optimization.
- Turn shared needs across advertisers, data providers, publishers, and sellers into reusable platform services and front-end components rather than one-off integrations.
- Guide cross-team decisions on schema governance, platform tooling, and architecture, balancing usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed.
Execution and influence
- Partner with Product Management, Design, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, technical approach, and delivery priorities.
- Break down ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
- Drive alignment across teams that contribute to or consume the platform, communicating technical decisions and trade-offs clearly.
- Define and improve measures of platform health and partner success, including integration time, adoption, API reliability, and developer experience.
- Promote high standards for production of readiness, operational ownership, and continuous improvement.
Engineering excellence
- Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and practical guidance.
- Coach engineers in system design, debugging, delivery, and operating services in production.
- Lead by example as a trusted, hands-on technical partner who helps teams solve difficult problems and make durable decisions.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where engineers share knowledge, challenge assumptions constructively, and take ownership of outcomes.
Who you are
You do not need to meet every qualification below. We are interested in candidates who demonstrate most of these capabilities and can learn the rest.
- You have a sustained record of leading complex, high-impact software initiatives from definition through production operation.
- You act as a Staff-level technical authority while remaining capable of and willing to contribute directly to the codebase.
- You have experience leading engineers with different levels of experience and helping senior engineers and technical leads grow.
- You have led initiatives involving several engineering and business teams, particularly where shared platform decisions affected teams outside your immediate organization.
- You can turn an ambiguous product vision into a coherent architecture and an executable delivery plan.
- You have strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms, service-oriented architecture, and modern software delivery practices.
- You have experience designing durable APIs — GraphQL especially, including federation and schema evolution — as well as REST or event-driven integration interfaces.
- You are experienced in modern frontend development: TypeScript, React, component-driven architecture, and data-rich single-page applications, ideally at monorepo scale.
- You are proficient in C# and TypeScript/JavaScript, and comfortable with SQL and relational data modeling (SQL Server or similar).
- You understand the needs of developers integrating with an external platform, including authentication and authorization, documentation, testing, versioning, observability, and supportability.
- You can evaluate technical trade-offs involving usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed.
- You communicate effectively with engineers, product leaders, commercial stakeholders, and external partners.
- You lead with confidence and low ego. You advocate for well-reasoned decisions, invite competing perspectives, and change course when the evidence supports it.
- You have significant professional software engineering experience, typically 10 or more years, or an equivalent record of technical impact.
- You have experience directly managing engineers or a clear record of comparable people leadership.
- You have a degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience that would be especially valuable
- Building developer platforms, app marketplaces, or self-service onboarding systems.
- Developing full-stack applications and data-rich partner experiences with React and .NET (or comparable stacks).
- Working with federated GraphQL (Apollo Federation, HotChocolate, or similar) and schema governance across multiple teams.
- Building or operating micro-frontend architectures and large frontend monorepos with modern build tooling (Bazel, pnpm workspaces, webpack/Vite).
- Creating public APIs, SDKs, technical documentation systems, sandboxes, or automated certification tooling.
- Working with identity, authorization, consent, data governance, or privacy-sensitive systems — for example, identity solutions such as UID2/EUID, persona-based access control, or entitlement systems.
- Operating distributed services on Kubernetes and containers across multiple public clouds (AWS and Azure), with relational databases, feature-flag and experimentation systems, and modern observability tooling (Prometheus, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
- Working in advertising technology or with publishers, data providers, measurement partners, retailers, brands, or agencies.
- Using AI-assisted experiences to improve documentation discovery, integration support, or developer productivity.
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.
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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.
What you'll do
Technical leadership
- Define the technical vision and architectural roadmap for The TradeDesk's partner-facing platform
- Lead the design of a scalable platform spanning federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, SDKs, modular micro-frontends, integration workflows, developer tools, and polished web experiences.
- Make hands-on contributions through prototypes, production code, architecture reviews, and code reviews across TypeScript/React front ends and C#/.NET GraphQL services.
- Establish standards for schema and API consistency, backward compatibility, authorization, security, privacy, reliability, observability, Kubernetes-based operations, and SQL data modeling.
- Simplify the partner journey from discovery and onboarding through testing, certification, launch, and ongoing optimization.
- Turn shared needs across advertisers, data providers, publishers, and sellers into reusable platform services and front-end components rather than one-off integrations.
- Guide cross-team decisions on schema governance, platform tooling, and architecture, balancing usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed.
Execution and influence
- Partner with Product Management, Design, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, technical approach, and delivery priorities.
- Break down ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
- Drive alignment across teams that contribute to or consume the platform, communicating technical decisions and trade-offs clearly.
- Define and improve measures of platform health and partner success, including integration time, adoption, API reliability, and developer experience.
- Promote high standards for production of readiness, operational ownership, and continuous improvement.
Engineering excellence
- Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and practical guidance.
- Coach engineers in system design, debugging, delivery, and operating services in production.
- Lead by example as a trusted, hands-on technical partner who helps teams solve difficult problems and make durable decisions.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where engineers share knowledge, challenge assumptions constructively, and take ownership of outcomes.
Who you are
You do not need to meet every qualification below. We are interested in candidates who demonstrate most of these capabilities and can learn the rest.
- You have a sustained record of leading complex, high-impact software initiatives from definition through production operation.
- You act as a Staff-level technical authority while remaining capable of and willing to contribute directly to the codebase.
- You have experience leading engineers with different levels of experience and helping senior engineers and technical leads grow.
- You have led initiatives involving several engineering and business teams, particularly where shared platform decisions affected teams outside your immediate organization.
- You can turn an ambiguous product vision into a coherent architecture and an executable delivery plan.
- You have strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms, service-oriented architecture, and modern software delivery practices.
- You have experience designing durable APIs — GraphQL especially, including federation and schema evolution — as well as REST or event-driven integration interfaces.
- You are experienced in modern frontend development: TypeScript, React, component-driven architecture, and data-rich single-page applications, ideally at monorepo scale.
- You are proficient in C# and TypeScript/JavaScript, and comfortable with SQL and relational data modeling (SQL Server or similar).
- You understand the needs of developers integrating with an external platform, including authentication and authorization, documentation, testing, versioning, observability, and supportability.
- You can evaluate technical trade-offs involving usability, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and delivery speed.
- You communicate effectively with engineers, product leaders, commercial stakeholders, and external partners.
- You lead with confidence and low ego. You advocate for well-reasoned decisions, invite competing perspectives, and change course when the evidence supports it.
- You have significant professional software engineering experience, typically 10 or more years, or an equivalent record of technical impact.
- You have experience directly managing engineers or a clear record of comparable people leadership.
- You have a degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience that would be especially valuable
- Building developer platforms, app marketplaces, or self-service onboarding systems.
- Developing full-stack applications and data-rich partner experiences with React and .NET (or comparable stacks).
- Working with federated GraphQL (Apollo Federation, HotChocolate, or similar) and schema governance across multiple teams.
- Building or operating micro-frontend architectures and large frontend monorepos with modern build tooling (Bazel, pnpm workspaces, webpack/Vite).
- Creating public APIs, SDKs, technical documentation systems, sandboxes, or automated certification tooling.
- Working with identity, authorization, consent, data governance, or privacy-sensitive systems — for example, identity solutions such as UID2/EUID, persona-based access control, or entitlement systems.
- Operating distributed services on Kubernetes and containers across multiple public clouds (AWS and Azure), with relational databases, feature-flag and experimentation systems, and modern observability tooling (Prometheus, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
- Working in advertising technology or with publishers, data providers, measurement partners, retailers, brands, or agencies.
- Using AI-assisted experiences to improve documentation discovery, integration support, or developer productivity.
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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in partner engineer jobs.
- Three or more years of experience in a technical customer-facing or partner-facing engineering role
- Proficiency building or troubleshooting REST APIs and webhook-based integrations
- Experience with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for external partner audiences
- Familiarity with authentication standards including OAuth 2.0 and SAML
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Partner Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to integration depth
Partner engineers are hired for their ability to connect systems, not just support them. Highlight specific API protocols, authentication methods, and integration patterns you have shipped, and name the partner types you have worked with, whether ISVs, resellers, or technology alliances.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists partner engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show partner-facing communication work
Many candidates document only internal engineering work. Create two or three concise examples of partner-facing deliverables you have owned, such as integration guides, sandbox onboarding flows, or technical enablement sessions, and reference them in both your resume and cover letter.
Target companies with active partner programs
Job postings for partner engineers at companies with mature marketplace or ISV programs move faster and carry more scope. Search for openings from companies that publicly list a technology partner directory or developer ecosystem, because those roles typically have clearer career ladders.
Prepare for a technical scoping exercise
Partner engineer interviews often include a live or take-home exercise where you assess a fictional partner's integration requirements and propose a solution. Practice walking through API documentation, identifying failure points, and explaining your recommendation to a non-technical stakeholder in the same session.
Negotiate on scope, not just compensation
Partner engineers frequently have leverage to negotiate which partner segments they own and what escalation authority they hold. Before accepting an offer, clarify whether you will be assigned to strategic accounts or long-tail partners, since that distinction shapes both your day-to-day impact and your promotion timeline.
Partner Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most partner engineers?
Google, a16z, and Amazon are hiring the most partner engineers right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially strong at companies with established ISV marketplace programs or multi-cloud partner ecosystems.
How many partner engineer jobs are remote?
About 76% of partner engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the external-facing nature of the role. Sub-specializations focused on technical onboarding, API support, and partner enablement content tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles tied to on-site executive briefings or regional partner events are more likely to require a fixed location.
How do you become a partner engineer?
Start by building hands-on experience with API integrations, either through a solutions engineer, technical support, or software development role. Develop the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical partners, then move into a partner-facing position at a company with an active ecosystem program. Certifications on major cloud platforms strengthen your profile for companies whose partner programs are built on those stacks.
Can I get hired as a partner engineer without direct experience in the role?
Yes, candidates from adjacent roles transition successfully into partner engineer positions. Solutions engineers, technical account managers, and developer advocates all carry transferable skills in external-facing communication and integration troubleshooting. Emphasize any experience where you helped an external party implement or extend a product, and demonstrate that you can read API documentation and diagnose integration failures independently.
What does the partner engineer interview process look like?
Most partner engineer interview processes include a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on past partner-facing work, a technical assessment covering API concepts or a sample integration scenario, and a panel round with cross-functional stakeholders such as product, sales, or customer success. Some companies add a written take-home where you produce a sample partner integration guide or escalation analysis before the final round.
Where can I find and apply to partner engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to partner engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search for roles that match your specialization and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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