Cloud Developer

Cloud Developer at Yahoo

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.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is committed to building brands people love and serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally. Our products include the Yahoo Homepage (www.yahoo.com), and Comscore #1 sites in News, Sports and Finance.

The Core Platform Team

The Core Platform team is building the industry leading next generation AI-powered cloud platforms, services and tools that underpin our products. We build and maintain systems at scale and ensure that Yahoo is always able to serve its hundreds of millions of users and billions of daily pageviews. Using a combination of open source software and internal tools across multiple cloud providers, we engineer automated solutions for base docker containers, Ingress routing, Identity management, service mesh, configuration templates, orchestration, monitoring and for deployment of containerized applications at scale. We promote and enable developer self-sufficiency and DevOps ownership models.

A Lot About You

You are a talented Cloud Developer who is passionate about velocity, developer productivity and product quality. You love to code and experiment with new technologies. You are known for the exemplary quality of your code and accompanying tests. You are an aggressive troubleshooter who can multitask on problems of varying difficulty, priority and time-sensitivity and get things done. You are smart, self-driven, and spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with just knowing that it does. You like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Terraform modules to standardize cloud features in the Yahoo environment
• Configure and automate Helm deployments for services hosted in Kubernetes
• Design and deploy AI-driven troubleshooting systems and cost optimization features across all managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Create intelligent onboarding agents that guide developers to configure and deploy applications seamlessly on cloud
• Automate setup, security, and scaling best practices through AI-driven workflows
• Diagnose, resolve and prevent issues from happening in production application infrastructure, using your critical knowledge of Kubernetes, UNIX tools, and cloud technologies
• Implement, and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, and trends
• Write clear and concise engineering documentation for internal users

Qualifications

• 3+ years with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience working with AWS or GCP public cloud
• Strong knowledge of cloud fundamentals including automation workflows, application deployments, monitoring, networking, and identity/access management
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes (cluster management, operators, CRDs, Helm, GitOps)
• Knowledge of observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for collecting data to feed AI models
• Expertise in any one of the scripting languages
• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents in cloud
• Knowledge of Service mesh technologies such as Istio is preferred
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and CDNs preferred
• Experience working with Terraform is preferred
• Programming experience in Go is preferred

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• AWS
• GCP
• Automation
• Go
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry
• Service Mesh