Principal Production Engineer

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

Job Duties

We are currently seeking highly proficient CloudOps with a strong dedication to constructing infrastructure and platforms within the Cloud environment. In this role, you will closely collaborate with architects and software developers to facilitate the delivery of our services to an extensive user base of Yahoo Mail users.

As an essential team member, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and manage Yahoo Mail cloud infrastructure and migrate large-scale on-prem applications to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Your main responsibilities will encompass the administration and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, including on-call support, monitoring, automation, deployment, the establishment of CI/CD pipelines, and the formulation of reusable cloud infrastructure templates via infrastructure as code (IaC) methodologies.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in supporting Site Reliability, DevOps, Infrastructure, and handling on-call duties within Cloud environments, with a preference for experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Proven experience working with large-scale applications, computer systems, and networks.

• Proficiency in Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP, MAIL protocols, DNS, content delivery networks (CDN), load balancers, and troubleshooting techniques.

• Proficiency in managing GCP services, including Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine (GCE), Networking, Security, CI/CD pipelines, and other common Cloud technologies.

• Proficiency in constructing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Helm Charts.

• Experience with the following is considered an advantage:

  • Cloud databases and storage platforms, such as Storage Services (GCS), Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore.

  • Machine Learning and AI platforms, such as Vertex AI, Generative AI, BigQuery, Looker and DataProc

  • Cloud observability , Open telemetry

  • Proficiency in programming using Python, Golang, or Java, along with the ability to build CI/CD pipelines for deploying services in these languages.

What makes you outstanding

• You have proven track records in migrating on-prem infrastructure to GCP. 

• You have years of operational experience in both On-prem and cloud environments

• You are able to build the cloud services, including GKE and Spanner, from scratch using IaC (Terraform) and various build and CICD tools. 

• You can explain the technologies/architecture related to the data flow in mail delivery, web page serving, and high availability.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (

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The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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