Yelp

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Production Engineering

Yelp

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Ireland

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSCassandraChefCloudDNSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLOpen SourcePrometheusPuppetPythonRubyRustSplunkTCP/IPTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Working with engineers across Yelp in supporting new features and services.
  • Integrating tools to monitor platform stability and performance.
  • Help scale our Kubernetes clusters and AWS-based infrastructure while maintaining our platform's SLOs.
  • Ensure the reliability of Yelp’s primary datastores (MySQL and Cassandra).
  • Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  • Automate everything with Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, Terraform and more!
  • Develop custom tools, when off-the-shelf solutions don’t work at our scale and contribute upstream to open source projects.
  • Design and implement new systems, tests, and procedures.
  • Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.
  • Participate in light on-call rotations - we have geographically distributed SRE teams for follow-the-sun support, which reduces the need to be on-call 24h a day!

Requirements

  • Mastery of Linux (we use Ubuntu but any distro is fine), with the view of debugging ambiguous OS behaviours!!
  • Command of your favorite modern programming language to appreciate delivering safe and secure services: Python, Typescript, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, C++, etc.
  • A solid understanding of Internet fundamental technologies in delivering services on the Internet (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, etc).
  • Experience with public cloud platforms (we use AWS and GCP, but others are also fine) and related tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.).
  • Experience with Linux containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Podman and Kubernetes).
  • Self-motivated to investigate, fix and improve Yelp in an ever changing environment.
  • Leading, Collaborating and Sharing technical activities with teams.
  • Own the total lifecycle of a system.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
  • 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
  • €150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
  • €95 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.
  • Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
  • Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
  • Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.
  • Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.
  • €95 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.
  • Quarterly team offsites.
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Hard Skills & Tools
LinuxPythonTypescriptRubyGoRustJavaC++TCP/IPHTTP
Soft Skills
self-motivatedcollaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvinginvestigationadaptabilityteamworkinclusivityculture building