Possible Future Job Posting: Production Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA
About Yahoo!
Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online—in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now’s the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.
Production Engineers at Yahoo! thrive on the scale and mission-critical nature of our complex ad serving runtime as well as the challenge that comes along with its operation. In this critical role, ideal candidates would utilize their rare combination of significant UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all operational aspects of Yahoo!'s revenue critical ad serving systems.
The ideal candidate would have strong Perl programming skills as well as an extensive background in large-scale system administration. They would work directly with design and development teams, and would participate in all phases of software development from planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and day-to-day service operation.
Job Responsibilities:
• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of our search and ad serving platforms
• Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment
• Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design
• Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and generally improve the operability of our systems
• Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
• Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation
Minimum Job Qualifications:
• Extensive system administration background
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
• Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python, Ruby
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with development teams
Preferred Job Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
• 5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP background a plus)
• Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
• BS Computer Science
Yahoo! offers an excellent benefits package that includes: 401K Plan, Medical (HMO & PPO), Dental & Vision benefits, paid vacation, paid sick days, Short & Long Term Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Employee Assistance Program, Stock Option Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Employees enjoy a casual dress and fun team environment.
Although this position is not open at this time, you may apply now if you’re interested.
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.
