Production Engineer II - Yahoo Sports!

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Media Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo, AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Autoblog and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content across all of our brands. In order to support this, our teams build the best in breed tools, APIs, utilities and services using bleeding edge technologies at scale.
 

About Yahoo Sports

Yahoo Sports is the world's most popular digital sports destination for fans and fantasy players. Our mission is to report independently and without any interference on sports leagues, teams, organizations, and events. We cover the news that fans want to know about their teams, whether real-life or fantasy.

 

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.

Join our passionate DevOps team committed to fostering a culture of ownership, excellence, and innovation. We are dedicated to engineering processes that are automated and agile, developing self-serve and reusable tools. Our goal is to efficiently bring products to market, proactively prevent defects, and swiftly address production issues. If you share our values, come join us in shaping the future of Yahoo Sports !

About the Role

The Yahoo Sports Production Engineering team is actively seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in AWS and a strong knowledge of web applications. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and possess the required skills, we invite you to be part of our collaborative and forward-thinking team. Apply now to contribute to our exciting journey!

A Lot About You:

We are on the lookout for DevOps, Production Engineers (SREs) who are natural problem solvers, capable of delving into code and owning the reliability domain. As a key member of the PE team, you will collaborate with developers to implement operability improvements, enhance security measures, automate processes, and address various system requirements. If you are a self-starter with a passion for tackling technical challenges, automating at scale, and iterating with new technologies, we want to hear from you.

You will thrive here if you:

• Are a self-starter with a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the application stack.

• Relentlessly automate everything at scale (tens of thousands of servers).

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

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

• Feel comfortable troubleshooting issues, participating in incident management, and being on-call.

• Are interested in cutting-edge technologies, open source, and taking products from design to production.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the production environment at a vast scale, including associated infrastructure and tools.

• Support the operability roadmap 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 states.

• Participate in the on-call rotation, driving incident resolution, live troubleshooting, and impact mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

• At least 5+ years of experience in DevOps/PE/SRE and Software Development roles.

• Expertise in AWS application management, including the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure applications.

• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure requirements, particularly in AWS environment