Production Engineer

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- I : 

Role

• This position will be part of a Production Engineering team that manages, maintains and supports production systems running either in Yahoo-owned data center or in a public cloud.
• learn and grow rapidly in order to be able to manage the scale at Yahoo.
• The PE teams in Bangalore look at 12x7x365 vs. 24 hours of coverage of critical production systems.  This also includes revenue-critical systems/applications as most of the systems have a direct or indirect revenue bearing.
• Along with cross-functional collaboration with Engg. / Product / OC / Site Operations – he/she should interface/collaborate with PE counterparts in other geographical locations (US/EU) in order to collectively support production systems in a true 24x7x365 fashion.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s programme Graduate. (preferably CSE/ IT/ECE/EE/AI stream)

Desired  

• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
• Must Have at least 1 year of Hands on Experience of working with Production Systems/Environments preferable with Public Clouds setups
• Proficient knowledge in data structures and algorithms, Unix, networks, operating systems and database systems (like MySQL).
• Knowledge of one or more languages (Python / Shell / Perl / PHP/Java).
• Possess strong troubleshooting skills both at the system (Linux) and application (Java, Node.js, PHP) level.
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve system and application issues.
• Hands on Exposure to Public Cloud providers Infra management tools ( specifically AWS ) like Cloudformation, Terraform etc.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Your Typical Day

Together with the global team, you will:

• Proactively look out for issues in production and mitigate them to the best of your ability.
• Build tools that will be used to automate away manual work at scale, by teams across the company.
• Assist with operational work in order to keep things running smoothly in production and non production environments.
• Proactively document processes, systems and their associated configurations.
• Participate in change and release management activities.
• Own the systems that you’re responsible for.
• Take part in learning activities for career growth.

Important notes for your attention

Applications: 

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.