Sr. Engineering Manager, Tooling and Reliability Platforms
YahooAbout the role
A Little About Us
Our Tooling and Reliability Platforms team operates as a foundational pillar of the Central Technology Organization. We provide the "paved road" for Yahoo's diverse verticals, enabling them to ship world-class products at a global scale. Our mission is to build modern, secure, and highly efficient platforms that power all of Yahoo's brands, with a relentless focus on Engineered Resilience.
A Lot About You
We are looking for a strategic Senior Engineering Manager (M4) to lead our Tooling & Reliability Platforms team. You are a Product Lead for the "paved road" of reliability at Yahoo, managing a large squad of engineers responsible for our incident management ecosystem while evolving these tools into a comprehensive, AI-augmented Reliability Platform.
You are strategic about the north star of Engineered Resilience, owning the roadmap for automated diagnostics and chaos engineering. You foster a culture of high-trust and continuous experimentation, where engineers are empowered to use modern tools to solve complex reliability challenges. You understand that in a modern engineering org, reliability is achieved through a mix of elite software engineering and intelligent automation.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership & Productivity: Manage and grow a high-performing team . Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in the product lifecycle to accelerate platform delivery and engineering productivity.
Product & Workflow Ownership: Treat the reliability stack as a product. Define the roadmap for the Incident Management platform, ensuring these tools reduce cognitive load for hundreds of service teams by replacing manual investigation steps with AI-assisted workflows.
AIOps & Governance: Drive the integration of GenAI and SRE Agents into production environments. Establish frameworks for validating AI-generated incident summaries and hypothesis generation to ensure accuracy and prevent automated hallucinations.
Resilience Engineering: Define the vision for the next generation of Resilience Engineering, focusing on building services that make products inherently resilient through automated alert diagnostics and self-healing systems.
Vendor Advocacy: Act as a high-leverage partner to our key vendors, holding them accountable for roadmap delivery and ensuring their features align with our team vision.
Who You Are
A Builder & A Leader: Experience managing manager-level or senior IC reports in a high-scale environment, with a track record of building internal platforms.
Product-Minded: You don’t just "install" tools; you architect a "paved road" that engineers want to use, focusing on reducing friction through intelligent automation.
AI-Forward: You possess a commitment to combining SRE with LLMs and have the expertise to convert AI potential into effective, real-world automation and structured prompt interaction with AI tools.
Strategic & Adaptive: Ability to manage day-to-day operations while pivoting strategy to account for emerging AI-driven reliability trends.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience leading SRE or DevOps teams in a high-scale, cloud-native environment.
Strong background in Software Engineering (Python, Go, or Java) and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Deep familiarity with incident management and AIOps tools (e.g., Rootly, PagerDuty, BigPanda).
Experience evaluating and refining AI-generated outputs in a technical or operational context.
Proven ability to collaborate with SaaS partners to influence a collective product vision.
Comfort operating in an evolving, AI-augmented environment with a focus on continuous learning.
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