Lead Staff Systems Reliability Engineer (Linux & Distributed Systems)
The Trade Desk · London
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days The Trade Desk's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 5% of The Trade Desk's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at The Trade Desk
- high 159 stale, 3 reposted of 159 open
- Hiring momentum
- 290 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from The Trade Desk's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for The Trade Desk.
About this role
The Lead Staff Systems Reliability Engineer will be responsible for leading a team to manage and plan work streams, systems, and data structures at scale within a global ecosystem. The role involves operating Linux-based systems, encouraging infrastructure automation, and benchmarking next-generation hardware. The engineer will also serve as a point of contact for new use cases and participate in on-call rotations, while being trained to become a NoSQL subject matter expert.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of The Trade Desk as an employer.
What you need
- Linux operating system
- Leadership experience and ability to mentor
- Troubleshooting skills
- Techniques for isolation and scientific method
- Ability to identify bottlenecks (CPU, IO)
Nice to have
- Physical hardware (on-prem) internals, management, and operation
- Performing testing and tuning
- Databases (relational or NoSQL)
- Ansible/PyInfra/Chef
- Prometheus
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on cutting-edge hardware and technologies may require a steep learning curve
- Role involves on-call rotation which may impact work-life balance
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Listed by The Trade Desk on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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