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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.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
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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