Sr. Production Engineer

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

Commerce is a fast-growing business for Yahoo. We are expanding our US Commerce Production Engineers (PE) team to help implement production stability improvements. We build and scale highly performant, reliable, and secure infrastructure. As we enter the next phase of growth, we are looking for senior technical leaders who can marry traditional engineering excellence with modern, AI-augmented workflows to drive unparalleled system reliability.

A Lot About You

The Yahoo Production Engineering team is seeking an experienced Sr. Production Engineer with expertise in AWS (or GCP). We are looking for a technical leader with a commitment to solving complex infrastructure challenges and a focus on building the next generation of resilient systems.

You are a problem solver who enjoys digging into code and owning the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will lead operability improvements, security, infrastructure, and automation initiatives. You are comfortable operating in an evolving, AI-augmented environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management and optimization of production environments at scale, ensuring high availability and performance across cloud-native infrastructures.

• Design and implement AI-augmented observability frameworks, leveraging machine learning to identify patterns, predict failures, and automate anomaly detection.

• Drive the operability roadmap by implementing advanced automation, CI/CD enhancements, and business continuity planning for complex, multi-region services.

• Resolve complex system and network problems by applying sophisticated analytical thought and innovative solutions.

• Participate in a senior-level on-call rotation, leading incident resolution and conducting deep-dive post-mortems to prevent recurrence.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Production Engineering, or SRE roles within high-scale environments.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).

• Familiar with Python, Node.js or Go, with a focus on building scalable automation.

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

• Experience working with IaC (eg. Terraform, Ansible)

• Experience with using Git to manage code

• Experience with building CI/CD pipelines

• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, networking, and security best practices..

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux system internals and kernel-level troubleshooting.

• Experience working with GitHub Actions

• Experience with system reliabilitytools including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana.

• A proven track record of staying current on emerging AI tools and proactively suggesting workflow improvements.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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.

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