Site Reliability Engineer II

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 Little About Us

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 Million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.Our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) sit under the office of the CTO as a critical part of the Yahoo Platforms Engineering (YPE) group. YPE enables all of the Yahoo verticals to develop and deliver the best possible products to our customers globally with the highest standards and with modern, secure, and efficient software platforms to power all of Yahoo’s brands at scale. For SRE, ensuring the availability and reliability of our platforms is at the heart of what we do.We are looking to expand our SRE team with experienced engineers seeking an opportunity to develop their careers in a company undergoing one of the largest technology transformations ever. We are looking for individuals who value collaboration, have solid communication skills, and have a passion for creating quality solutions to support our products.
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability of Yahoo’s products and infrastructure alongside other DevOps teams. We operate services at a scale covering our entire software, system, and network footprint across our data centers and multiple cloud service providers. We encourage new ideas, and continuously experiment and evaluate new technologies. Our team structure encourages trust, learning from one another, having fun, and supporting passionate people about what they do.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support production systems and their associated infrastructure and tools.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the product and technical roadmap and manage impact to the operability of systems.
• Provide in-depth and timely solutions to complex technical issues, related to both site-up issues and product improvements.
• Maintain and improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business-continuity planning.

A Lot About You

• B.E./B.tech in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 6+ years of industry experience, preferably at large scale
• Prior experience supporting 24x7, highly-available, systems
• Ability to provide technical leadership in incident, change, and problem management activities.
• Solid understanding of best practices around operations, software development, release engineering & continuous delivery.
• Experience working in an Unix operating system environment
• Ability to write fully functional scripts using Python/Golang/Ruby/Perl
• Expertise administering, supporting, debugging and tuning systems and technologies
• Experience working with AWS or GCP cloud concepts and basic architecture best practices.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and container-based orchestration.
• Familiarity with IaC Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Chef, Terraform)
• Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) administration and usage
• Running Infrastructure Automation Tools at scale (Git, Airflow, Jenkins, Screwdriver)
• Red Hat/CentOS & Linux operating system internals
• Information security best practices: trust management, certificates
• TCP/IP networking & load-balancer
• Prior experience working in a production serving environment

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 (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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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