Lead Staff Systems Reliability Engineer (Linux & Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Lead Staff Systems Reliability Engineer (Linux & Distributed Systems): Lead team to build and maintain data-driven platform using Aerospike, Kafka, MongoDB achieving p99 latency under 1ms with an accent on performance tuning, hardware optimization, and automation at global scale. Focus on benchmarking next-gen hardware, designing distributed systems automation, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and pushing infrastructure endurance limits.

Location: London

Company

hirify.global is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising across streaming TV, podcasts, mobile apps, news, and more.

What you will do

• Lead team to influence, manage, and plan work streams, systems, and data structures at scale across global infrastructure providers.
• Build and improve infrastructure automation for stateful systems at scale.
• Own operations for Linux-based systems running Aerospike, Kafka, and MongoDB.
• Serve as point of contact for new use cases, answer questions, and participate in on-call rotation.
• Learn NoSQL expertise through training and become subject matter expert.
• Benchmark and analyze next-generation hardware offerings.

Requirements

• Strong Linux operating system skills.
• Leadership experience and ability to mentor.
• Advanced troubleshooting using isolation techniques, scientific method, and bottleneck identification (CPU, IO).
• Empathetic, objective critical thinker who understands the 'why' behind objectives.
• Open to diverse perspectives, creative problem-solving, and adaptability.

Nice to have

• Physical hardware (on-prem) internals, management, and operation.
• Performing testing and tuning.
• Databases (relational or NoSQL).
• Ansible/PyInfra/Chef, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Python/Ruby/Rust/Bash/Golang/C#.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge challenges like 5MM QPS to NVMe in Aerospike and clusters with 300TB NVMe, 3TB RAM, 512 cores.
• Collaborate with vendors like AMD and NoSQL providers on PoCs and optimizations.
• Global team encouraging curiosity, diverse perspectives, learning, and innovation.
• Impact worldwide through transparent, effective, responsible advertising technology.