It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. 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.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is 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. Our products include the Yahoo Homepage (www.yahoo.com), and Comscore #1 sites in News, Sports and Finance.

The Core Platform team builds industry leading next generation cloud platforms, services and tools that underpin our products. We build and maintain systems at scale and ensure that Yahoo is always able to serve its hundreds of millions of users and billions of daily pageviews. Using a combination of open source software and internal tools across multiple cloud providers, we engineer automated solutions for base docker containers, Ingress routing, Identity management, service mesh, configuration templates, orchestration, monitoring and for deployment of containerized applications at scale. We promote and enable developer self-sufficiency and DevOps ownership models.

A Lot About You

You are a talented Cloud Engineer who is passionate about velocity, developer productivity and product quality. You are an aggressive troubleshooter who can multitask on problems of varying difficulty, priority and time-sensitivity and get things done. You are smart, self-driven, and spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with just knowing that it does. You like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale.

You Will

• Develop and enhance Terraform modules to standardize cloud features in the Yahoo environment


• Configure and automate Helm deployments for services hosted in Kubernetes


• Diagnose, resolve and prevent issues from happening in production application infrastructure, using your critical knowledge of Kubernetes, UNIX tools, and cloud technologies


• Implement, and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, and trends


• Have a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the user experience


• Write clear and concise engineering documentation for internal users

Qualifications

• 3+ years with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent


• Experience working with AWS or GCP public cloud


• Strong knowledge of cloud fundamentals to include automation, deployments, monitoring, networking, and access management


• Expertise in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, preferably Kubernetes


• Expertise in any one of the scripting languages, preferably Python


• Experience working with Terraform


• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents in cloud


• Knowledge of Kubernetes, helm, Docker, Istio and Go preferred


• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and CDNs preferred


• Experience with monitoring, alerting and deployment preferred

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies ; exercising sound judgment ; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others ; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations ; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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