Site Reliability Engineer II

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people

Whether youre 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 businessand 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 lovefrom finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and newswith 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 Yahoos 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 Yahoos 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

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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

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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 dont 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, youll be given notice to make arrangements

If youre curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter

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