Posted:
12/10/2024, 10:53:29 AM
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level
Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
A Little About Us
Yahoo is committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media and technology brands. Our products include the Yahoo Homepage (www.yahoo.com), and Comscore #1 sites in News, Sports and Finance.
The Core Platform team builds industry leading next generation cloud platforms, services and tools that underpin our products. We build and maintain systems at scale and ensure that Yahoo is always able to serve its hundreds of millions of users and billions of daily pageviews. Using a combination of open source software and internal tools across multiple cloud providers, we engineer automated solutions for base docker containers, Ingress routing, Identity management, service mesh, configuration templates, orchestration, monitoring and for deployment of containerized applications at scale. We promote and enable developer self-sufficiency and DevOps ownership models.
A Lot About You
You are a talented Cloud Engineer who is passionate about velocity, developer productivity and product quality. You are an aggressive troubleshooter who can multitask on problems of varying difficulty, priority and time-sensitivity and get things done. You are smart, self-driven, and spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with just knowing that it does. You like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale.
You Will
Develop and enhance Terraform modules to standardize cloud features in the Yahoo environment
Configure and automate Helm deployments for services hosted in Kubernetes
Diagnose, resolve and prevent issues from happening in production application infrastructure, using your critical knowledge of Kubernetes, UNIX tools, and cloud technologies
Implement, and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, and trends
Have a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the user experience
Write clear and concise engineering documentation for internal users
Qualifications
3+ years with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
Experience working with AWS or GCP public cloud
Strong knowledge of cloud fundamentals to include automation, deployments, monitoring, networking, and access management
Expertise in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, preferably Kubernetes
Expertise in any one of the scripting languages, preferably Python
Experience working with Terraform
Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents in cloud
Knowledge of Kubernetes, helm, Docker, Istio and Go preferred
Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and CDNs preferred
Experience with monitoring, alerting and deployment preferred
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 (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.
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.
The compensation for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/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.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
Website: http://www.yahoo.com/
Headquarter Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Employee Count: 5001-10000
Year Founded: 1994
IPO Status: Delisted
Last Funding Type: Series B
Industries: Email ⋅ Internet ⋅ Native Advertising ⋅ Online Portals ⋅ Search Engine ⋅ Social Media