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.

Job Description

Yahoo is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo is shaping the future of media.

Yahoo! makes the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Yahoo’s businesses span across Search, Communications, Media and many other verticals.

A Little About Us

Ads and Data systems production engineering teams manage Ads serving, data systems pipelines, Relational databases, Data Analytics and reporting systems that carry out large- scale Ads serving, data collection, data processing, data aggregation, and reporting. Our teams are working on Big Data and Web Apps technologies that include AWS EMR, Hadoop, OOZIE, Hive, HBase, Druid, Presto, Kafka, Storm, Pig, ATS, Java, Node.js, Jetty, Kubernetes and the tools and technologies for CI/CD and configuration management.

A Lot About You

We are seeking talented engineers for managing a large-scale application, ensuring high availability, continuous performance optimization, and building robust monitoring and automation at an internet-scale. You will assist in the completion of assigned project tasks. Understand the required monitoring and automation requirements and assist in implementation. You will need to troubleshoot and solve moderate to advance problems and escalate whenever required to dev team members. Learn and understand the overall architecture of systems and come up to speed at the earliest possible with guidance from senior team members. 

Your Day

• Understand existing project design, monitoring setup, and automation.

• Troubleshoot, resolve and document production issues and escalate as required.

• Collaborate with global team members to understand day-to-day tasks and issues.

• Develop and implement tools and automation for managing production systems.

• Identify and fix the gap in current monitoring and automation.

• Document processes, systems, and their associated configurations, usage of tools and automation.

• Be part of global on-call (12/7) rotation shift.

You Must Have

• 2-5 years of experience in Linux systems, web applications, distributed computing, and computer networking.

• Knowledge of Hadoop, AWS EMR, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GIT is a plus.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team working skills

• Good coding skills in one or more of the following: BASH / Python / Java & Go

• Basic web development skills using HTML5, CSS, JQuery, node.js are desired (not mandatory).

• Problem diagnosis and resolution of moderate to advance production issues

• Strong desire to learn and understand new concepts, technologies, systems as part of day-to-day work.

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.

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