Global-Scale Linux SRE Lead — Distributed Systems

The Trade Desk; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Lead Systems Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and continue building and maintaining our data-driven platform. You will lead a team responsible for Linux-based systems running Aerospike, Kafka, and Mongo, and collaborate with global data centers and cloud providers to ensure sub-millisecond latency and high availability.

You’ll drive automation, performance tuning, and on-call readiness while mentoring others and shaping the future of our

Qualifications

• Linux operating system
• Leadership experience and ability to mentor
• Troubleshooting techniques for isolation, scientific method
• Identify bottlenecks (CPU? IO?)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to influence, manage, and plan work streams, systems, and data structures at scale within a global ecosystem.
• Encourage, improve, and build infrastructure automation at scale with stateful systems.
• Own operations for Linux-based systems running Aerospike, Kafka, and Mongo.
• Serve as a point of contact to review new use cases and participate in on-call rotation.
• Learn to be a NoSQL SME and be trained if needed.
• Benchmark and analyze next generation hardware offerings.

Skills

Linux

Leadership experience

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ansible

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Python

Ruby

Rust

Bash

Golang

C#

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Lead Systems Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and continue building and maintaining our data-driven platform. You will lead a team responsible for Linux-based systems running Aerospike, Kafka, and Mongo, and collaborate with global data centers and cloud providers to ensure sub-millisecond latency and high availability.

You’ll drive automation, performance tuning, and on-call readiness while mentoring others and shaping the future of our