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.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions and it takes powerful technology to connect brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million!  We provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

Yahoo Ads Engineer builds solutions for leading advertisers, agencies, publishers, and app developers. The Ads Production Engineering Team (DevOps) ensures that these solutions and data are available 24x7 globally.

On a typical day, you will find yourself:

• Orchestrating the design and deployment of products on AWS.

• Researching and implementing solutions for fault tolerance, performance, capacity, and maintainability.

• Working in a CI/CD environment with a dedicated team of engineers and the latest technologies.

• Crafting scripts and tools for the automation of infrastructure and services.

• Safeguarding services and infrastructure by performing security-related projects and tasks.

• Responding to production incidents, crafting and tuning monitors and critical metrics, and improving service health and incident response by writing knowledge articles.

Required Technical Skills and Experience:

• Experience running production environments and infrastructure on AWS.

• Experience setting up and supporting: ELB; ALB; NLB; Autoscaling; IAM; EC2; RDS; Lambda; S3; Route53; SQS; and ElastiCache

• Hands-on Linux administration experience (Ubuntu or CentOS), including high availability, configuration, security, and patch management.

• Understanding of Linux network stack TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS.

• Experience with the creation of and use of Terraform.

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools like Chef, Consul, or Ansible.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins.

• Hands-on experience with Git.

• Ability to participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule.

• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Ruby preferred.

• Experience with Databases: MySQL; Vertica; DynamoDB; MongoDB; Couchbase preferred.

• Five or more years of hands-on experience in Production Engineering/DevOps preferred.

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS, EMR, ECS, MWAA, and Athena preferred.

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 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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

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 (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. 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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.