Sr. Production Engineer

About this role

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.

About Yahoo Platform Experiences   Platform Experiences is a broad Yahoo organization that builds shared experiences and underlying platform capabilities across content, commerce, personalization, and site surfaces. The org includes squads such as Sites, Commerce AI, Catalog, Commerce Delivery System, Merchant Platforms & Data, and Recommendation Engine & Content Understanding. The team sits at the intersection of consumer experience and platform infrastructure. On the experience side, Sites focuses on organizing and presenting content in ways that maximize discoverability, SEO, and impact across properties. On the platform side, the org owns core systems for catalog ingestion and enrichment, merchant/data platforms, and affiliate or SKU-based product promotion through CDS. Platform Experiences is also in an important expansion phase. The org is taking on former News content hubs, standardizing them on the Platform layout, evolving the Commerce application into the Platform application, unifying the design system on Yahoo OS, and scaling experience configuration and taxonomy to support News verticals. The Production Engineering (PE/SRE/DevOps) team is the power behind engineering goodness for all above. By writing, designing and implementing software and infrastructure to drive velocity, operability, reliability and performance, the PE team ensures continuous quality and compliance on production systems. We also build and maintain tools and platforms for engineer productivity and are at the forefront of tech initiatives of infrastructure modernization with cloud platforms. We cultivate an environment open to experimentation, where continuous learning and AI-assisted automation are embraced to scale our impact.   Yes, we are DevOps! We are all about: Enabling a culture of ownership and excellence Engineering processes that are Automated and Agile Developing tools that are Self-Serve and (Re)Usable

Our goal is to:

Efficiently bring products to market Proactively prevent defects from reaching customers Swiftly address and resolve any production issues Solve problems using automation and software

If you believe in the above, come join us.   A Lot About You:   The Yahoo commerce team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in AWS and a strong knowledge of Web applications. If you have a strong focus on working in a dynamic environment and possess the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us. Apply now to join our team! We are looking for DevOps, Production Engineers (SRE's) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a senior member of the PE team, you will collaborate with developer partners to establish engineering and operational standards. You will drive reliability improvements, security structures, automation, CI/CD, and intelligent monitoring while helping mentor junior team members and accelerating developer velocity.   Responsibilities: • Analyze current frameworks and infrastructures to oversee high-capacity distributed systems, pinpoint potential enhancements, and establish architectural operational standards.

• Engage with development teams to shape the product trajectory, offering senior-level expertise in scaling, capacity management, security, and operational monitoring.

• Address intricate networking and system difficulties to bolster overall platform stability and performance.

• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Amazon Q) to accelerate the design, implementation, and refinement of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) scripts and custom system automation tools.

• Execute frontend visibility strategies, including Real User Monitoring (RUM), performance tracking for Core Web Vitals, and managing error budgets using Datadog or CloudWatch.

• Coordinate with frontend developers to establish performance thresholds, deployment protocols, and tools that enhance the developer experience.

• Drive progressive delivery—feature flags, canary releases, and A/B deployment strategies.

• Establish automated, AI-driven diagnostic pipelines using cloud tools (such as AWS Bedrock / Anthropic Claude) to ingest log streams, accelerate root-cause analysis, and streamline incident post-mortems.

• Take a leading role in the on-call cycle to troubleshoot and resolve live production issues, driving follow-up efforts to prevent recurrence.

• Mentor junior engineers within the immediate squad, leading small team initiatives and running knowledge-sharing sessions on cloud engineering and modern DevOps standards.  

Minimum Qualifications: • A minimum of five years of professional experience across SRE, Production Engineering, DevOps, and software development (or equivalent demonstrated engineering capacity).

• Hands-on experience utilizing AI pair-programming assistants (e.g., Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor) to optimize development cycles, review configurations, and accelerate script generation.

• Proficiency in developing with at least one language such as Go, Python, Java, or Node.js.

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms, Docker & container deployment (ECS or EKS) for at least 2 years.

• Solid grasp of networking protocols and security standards, including TLS/SSL, HSTS, HTTPS enforcement, and certificate management.

• Proven track record designing and maintaining reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, specifically Terraform.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.

• Experience utilizing Datadog or CloudWatch to maintain system observability.  

Preferred Qu

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