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Service Engineer, Senior
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
Yahoo currently has a Service Engineer, Senior position available at our office in Sunnyvale, CA.
DUTIES: Work on complex problems of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires in depth evaluation of various factors which may be difficult to define. Focus on the availability, performance, scalability & maintainability of Yahoo!’s Production Applications & Services. Responsibilities include service support, which is the processes, standards and technology required to support Yahoo!'s services; and service delivery, which is the deploying, scaling, managing and measuring of all Yahoo! Services. It includes engineers working on each tier of the tiered escalation model, Tools and Automation, systems architecture, System and Application monitoring, Build and Release, Configuration, Performance, Capacity Planning, Business Continuity Planning & Service Metric Reporting and Postmortem Analysis. Service Engineers partner with development, operations and business counterparts to guide the service architecture and influence projects and priorities to ensure success. Function as a “go-to” technical generalist, responsible for the overall performance and health of our systems. Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and to monitor a large-scale distributed environment. Contribute to the overall design and specifications of our next generation applications, working 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 rapid growth.
REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, followed by 8 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or a computer-related occupation.
Experience must include:
1. Administration and performance-tuning of UNIX Systems, Apache, MySQL, DB and network latency
2. Release engineering (tools and processes)
3. Management of large-scale distributed storage systems
4. Experience with a 24x7, high-availability, broadly distributed production environment
5. TCP/IP networking, load-balancers, DNS and caching
6. Strong problem-solving skills in UNIX environment
7. Scripting in Shell, regular expressions, Perl, Python, or PHP
8. Experience in developing capacity planning and bench marking infrastructure
9. Development and monitoring infrastructure for applications monitoring
10. UNIX core dump analysis
11. Supporting or developing Java or C++ applications