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Production Engineer, CDN & Edge Systems

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 the Team

The Yahoo DNS Infrastructure team is responsible for the core infrastructure and shared services required to support all Yahoo services globally. We design and build scalable, high-performance networks, provide long-term storage strategy and automation, manage global name resolution and routing and, provide capacity and performance consultation for other Yahoo teams.

About the Role

Yahoo’s Edge Infrastructure team is looking for a Production Engineer, sysadmin, system engineer, or developer, the type of person with experience in Cache, Proxy, DNS, networking, OS, and coding. They’ll be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, and operations of the Cache and Proxy systems to deliver at-scale solutions. They will need to identify opportunities for automation and technology improvements and develop solutions in order to keep up with the changing needs of the company and the technology used. They will also be expected to deep dive into problems to solve them and research new technologies to evaluate or implement them.

Responsibilities

• Environment: RHEL, Bind, PDNS, Ansible, Apache Traffic Server, Nginx
• Coding: Perl, Python, C++, golang, etc.
• Troubleshooting: Understanding of fundamental network and service protocols and how to diagnose them.
• Development: Team members are expected to drive product improvement.
• Attitude: Friendly, enjoys working with others and will keep up with and learn new technology.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent industry experience. Typical candidates have a BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and 7 to 10 years of equivalent experience.
• Candidates must be comfortable coding and be willing to learn or code in a variety of languages. Perl, Python, golang, PHP, and C++. I (Not expecting someone to be an expert in all of them. :) )
• Candidates must understand basic networking principles and can describe how and why packets flow the way they do.
• Candidates must have a basic understanding of RHEL and how to manage and troubleshoot such systems.