Engineering Director - Compute Platform
@ Yelp

Hybrid
$260,000
Hybrid
Full Time
Posted 22 days ago

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Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by values of collaboration, authenticity, and creative problem solving. New engineers deploy working code in the first week while having a significant individual impact with support from managers and mentors.

About the Role

As the Engineering Director - Compute Platform at Yelp, you will lead globally distributed teams across North America and Europe. You will shape technical strategy in compute infrastructure and cloud economics, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. This role empowers teams building Yelp’s integrated compute platform, including managing the evolution of Yelp’s Kubernetes-based PaaSTA platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor geographically distributed engineering teams.
  • Drive strategy and vision for the compute platform.
  • Oversee and evolve the PaaSTA (Kubernetes-based) platform.
  • Foster collaboration and a unified developer experience.
  • Champion best practices in observability, incident response, and SRE.
  • Build and sustain an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

What It Takes To Succeed

  • Excellent leadership and communication skills.
  • Deep experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure at scale.
  • Proven ability to lead globally distributed teams.
  • Strong background in cost optimization, reliability, and observability.
  • Solid grasp of incident response, SRE principles, and production operations.

What You'll Get

Competitive compensation ranging from $217,000 to $310,000 annually, bonus opportunities, restricted stock units and benefits. This role is fully remote in Canada.

Key skills/competency

  • Leadership
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Kubernetes
  • Compute Platform
  • Incident Response
  • SRE
  • Cost Optimization
  • Observability
  • Team Mentorship
  • Collaboration
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How to Get Hired at Yelp

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Research Yelp's culture: Understand their values and technical focus.
  • Customize your resume: Highlight cloud and leadership experience.
  • Showcase technical strategy: Emphasize compute platform expertise.
  • Prepare for leadership insights: Understand managing global teams.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review cloud infrastructure fundamentals.
Study Kubernetes and container orchestration.
Analyze incident response case studies.
Prepare scenarios on cost optimization.

Behavioral Questions

Describe a challenge leading global teams.
Explain handling critical incident responses.
Discuss fostering inclusive team culture.
Share examples of collaborative problem solving.

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