Production Engineer II - Yahoo Commerce

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. 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. Want in?

A little about us:
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 50+ media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo is shaping the future of media.
About Yahoo Commerce

The Yahoo Commerce team’s mission is to help our audience of 600M monthly active users discover and make informed decisions about products and services so they can save time and money. We primarily serve audiences who are in their shopping journeys across all Yahoo properties. We work directly with our partners to reach new audiences, gain new users, and drive GMV through leveraging our ecosystem of products and services. 

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.

Yes, we are DevOps! 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
The Yahoo Commerce team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in 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. Apply now to join our team!

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.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree

• At least 3 years experience in DevOps/ PE / SRE and Software Development roles

• At least 3 Years of experience in at least one of the web technologies like Apache, Jetty, Tomcat.

• At least a year of experience in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) , cloud platforms like AWS

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

• Experience with building CI/CD pipelines, git

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

• Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience in ATS is a plus

• Experience with system reliability tools like Open telemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK

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

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