Sr. Production Engineer

Jobinhalt

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?

About Yahoo

Yahoo is focused on making 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 globe. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. Yahoo

A Little About Us

Our engineering teams are focused on delivering the best Ecommerce global products. We integrate with the entire product lifecycle so as to be able to provide support for the agility that is requisite in this industry. In this we are responsible for service quality, performance and delivery to Yahoo users across the globe. We leverage industry standards and best practices in order to achieve these high standards. Our team structure encourages trust, learning from one another, having fun, and attracting people who are passionate about what they do.

A Lot About You

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver the new and better experiences to our users while ensuring reliability and performance of the services. You are the type of person who will jump in to debug and fix things, multitasks and context-switches well. You have a strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Release management, Performance Engineering and Network Operations.

Your Day:

• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of E-Commerce systems
• Primary responsible to online alert monitoring, and incident handling in a standard procedure of notification, problem resolving, fail out to BCP and escalations
• Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of Linux and Microsoft Windows servers .
• Work with development teams or other supporting groups to harden, enhance, document, establish process and generally improve the operability of our systems
• Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
• Maintain in-house development and production environments by complying with the concepts of DevOps or Service Reliability Engineering
• Must have on-call rotation and work with the frontier operational teams in worldwide
• Better have the hands-on experience on one of the CI/CD tools
  
  

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Education background in Computer Science or equivalent majors
• BS degree is must and the higher education level is better
• Fair verbal and written English communication skills
• Strong hands-on experiences on the LINUX environment with the ability to navigate, manipulate and understand the kernel technology.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP network environment, load-balancers, DNS and other internet protocols
• Good knowledge on change, incident and BCP/DRP technologies
• Excellent skills to effectively communicate via phone and in writing
• Good self management skills, must be a self initiate and able to manage work priority effectively
• Working experience with other functions like Product, Software Development, Customer Service or Infrastructure related
• At least one year of experience on using UNIX shell script or other programming language on UNIX based platforms
  
  

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.

US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.

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