Production Engineer

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Lot About You

Yahoo Data Production Engineering team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in GCP (or AWS) and a strong knowledge of data pipeline applications. If you are passionate about working in a dynamic environment and have the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us. Apply now to join our team!

We are looking for DevOps, Production Engineers (SRE's) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will work with your developer partners and implement operability improvements, security, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring and other system requirements. You will also work in development of tools, automation platforms and intelligent monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Manage production environment at vast scale and their associated infrastructure and tools

• Support the operability roadmap to improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business continuity planning

• Work on challenging system and network problems to improve system performance and reliability

• Implement and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, trends and insights

• Participation in on-call rotation - drive incident resolution, live troubleshooting and impact mitigation

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree

• At least 1 year experience in DevOps / PE / SRE and Software Development roles

• At least a year of experience in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) , cloud platforms like AWS, GCP

• Intermediate level of coding expertise in one or more language including Nodejs, Python, or Go

• Experience working with IaC (eg. Terraform, Ansible)

• Experience with using Git to manage code

• Experience with building CI/CD pipelines

• Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing and optimizing GCP Dataproc, Composer (Airflow, EMR on AWS) and bigquery slot management for big-data pipeline orchestration

• Experience in designing, managing large scale infrastructure in either AWS EKS, AWS Open  search, OR GCP GKE, GCP Observability/Monitoring and with multi zone, multi region deployments

• Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux system internals and tools for troubleshooting application stack dumps and networking

• Experience working with GitHub Actions

• Experience with system reliability tools like Open telemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK,Grafana 

• Experience with storage solutions like REDIS, DynamoDB

• Some experience with the Hadoop ecosystem comprising Oozie, Pig, Spark etc.

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 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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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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