Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

About the Role

The Yahoo Finance Production Engineering team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in GCP and AWS and a strong knowledge of Web applications. If you are passionate about working in a dynamic environment and have the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us.

About the Team

The Production Engineering (PE/SRE/DevOps) team is the power behind engineering goodness for all above. By writing, designing and implementing software and infrastructure to drive velocity, operability, reliability and performance, the PE team ensures continuous quality and compliance on production systems. We also build and maintain tools and platforms for engineer productivity and are at the forefront of tech initiatives of infrastructure modernization with cloud platforms and experimenting with new technologies.

We are all about: 

• Enabling a culture of ownership and excellence.

• Engineering processes that are Automated and Agile.

• Developing tools that are Self-Serve and (Re)Usable. 

Our goal is to:

• Efficiently bring products to market.

• Proactively prevent defects from reaching customers.

• Swiftly address and resolve any production issues.

• If you believe in the above, come join us.

A Lot About You

We are looking for DevOps, Production Engineers (SRE's) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will work with your developer partners and implement operability improvements, security, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring and other system requirements. You will also work in development of tools, automation platforms and intelligent monitoring.

• You are a self starter with a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the application stack

• Like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale (tens of thousands of servers)

• Want to make web applications and backend systems faster, more reliable, more efficient

• Can handle fast-paced projects, enjoy having a broad and deep technical knowledge and are driven to iterate with new technologies

• Feel comfortable with troubleshooting issues, incident management and doing on-call

• Interested in cutting edge technologies, open source and taking products from design to production

Responsibilities

• Manage production environment at vast scale and their associated infrastructure and tools

• Support the operability roadmap to improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business continuity planning

• Work on challenging system and network problems to improve system performance and reliability

• Implement and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, trends and insights

• Participation in on-call rotation - drive incident resolution, live troubleshooting and impact mitigation

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree

• At least 5+ years experience in GCP, AWS  and Software Development roles

• At least 5+ Years of experience in web technologies like Apache, Jetty, Tomcat, node

• At least 3+ years of experience in deploying and maintaining applications in Kubernetes.

• Intermediate to advanced level of coding expertise in one or more language including Java, Python, or Go

• Solid experience with writing, understanding and enhancing algorithms, data structures, scripting, and software design practice

• Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux system internals and tools for troubleshooting application

• Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking

• Strong oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science

• Experience in Managing EKS, ECS, helm chart, fluxcd

• Experience in working with any IAC, preferably Terraform

• Experience in designing, managing large scale infrastructure in AWS EKS, AWS Open search, multi zone, multi region deployments.

• Experience with building CI/CD pipelines using github actions 

• Experience in MLOps 

• Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux system internals and tools for troubleshooting applications 

• Experience with system reliability/observablity tools like Open telemetry, Chronosphire, Openseach observablity, Prometheus, Splunk

• Experience with large data processing and storage solutions like Flink, Storm, Spark, Hadoop Map/Reduce, Pig, Oozie, REDIS

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.

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.