Production Engineer II, Edge Services

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.

Production Engineer II, Edge Services

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports to shopping, gaming, and news—with the trusted products, content, and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

About Yahoo’s Edge Infrastructure Team

Yahoo’s Edge Infrastructure team designs, builds, and maintains the global infrastructure and services that support Yahoo products. This includes managing high-performance networks, automating storage, handling global DNS and routing, and consulting on system capacity and performance.

Role Overview

As a Production Engineer II, you will design, implement, and operate Yahoo’s Cache and Proxy systems. In this role, you will develop robust, scalable solutions that cater to diverse product requirements. You will be expected to proactively identify opportunities for automation, efficiency, and modernization as Proxy technologies evolve. This includes developing and implementing improvements to keep pace with growth and emerging technological needs.

You’ll regularly dive deep into complex technical problems—analyzing issues, determining root causes, and implementing solutions—to ensure availability, resilience, and optimal performance of caching and proxy infrastructure. Staying current with industry trends is key; you’ll research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to strengthen Yahoo’s technical edge.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support Yahoo’s production and corporate infrastructure around the clock.
• Provide full-stack support for Yahoo products and services, including application monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving system alarms.
• Partner with development, operations, and business counterparts to ensure near 100% uptime of all services.
• Communicate with internal and external customers about operational issues and collaborate between engineering teams.
• Drive product and process improvements.
• Stay current with new technology and promote a positive, collaborative work environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 3+ years supporting Site Reliability, DevOps, and Infrastructure, and handling on-call duties within cloud environments (on-prem or public cloud).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Proven experience with large-scale applications, computer systems, and networks.
• Proficiency in Linux (RedHat, CentOS, etc), TCP/IP, HTTP protocols, DNS, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Load Balancers, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Proficiency in one or more languages (Bash, Python, Perl, C++, or Go).
• Experience with Proxy technologies (e.g., ATS, Nginx, Envoy).
• Experience using Containers and Orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS; Istio is a plus).
• Proficiency in Automation/Configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Helm Charts, etc.).
• Experience with Monitoring/Observability tools (ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux internals and troubleshooting tools.
• Familiarity with Apache Traffic Server.
• Ability to explain technologies and architectures related to data flow in web page serving and ensuring high availability.

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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