System Administrators / Service Engineers wanted at Yahoo! (in SF bay area or LA area)
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From: Hristo on 23 Feb 2010 16:59 System Administrators / Service Engineers wanted at Yahoo! (in SF bay area or LA area) *** If you are interested, meet all of the qualifications listed below, and are currently located in the U.S., please email me a resume at hristo(a)yahoo-inc.com . Thanks! *** ======= ABOUT YAHOO! Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people onlinein innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo! We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Nows the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people. DO YOU... * Have a passion for solving technical problems, from the network to the application stack? * Want to write applications that provide infrastructure for deploying software to, manage, and maintain many thousands of servers? * Envision the ability to work with large scale systems which require performing almost no tasks manually? * Spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with knowing just that it does? * Want to make real web applications and back-end systems faster, more reliable, more efficient? Service Engineers at Yahoo! thrive on the scale and mission-critical nature of our complex search and advertising systems as well as the challenge that comes along with their operation. In this critical role, the Service Engineer would utilize rare combination of significant UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all operational aspects of Yahoo!'s revenue- critical search and advertising platforms. The ideal candidate would be a technical generalist with skills ranging from production systems/ network management to software development. These are full time positions located in Sunnyvale, CA; Santa Clara, CA; or Burbank, CA RESPONSIBILITIES * Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of our search and ad serving platforms * Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment * Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design * Work 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 our constant growth * Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation MINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATIONS * Extensive system administration background * Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability * Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python, Ruby * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Experience working with development teams PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS * 5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus) * 5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP background a plus) * Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems * BS Computer Science |