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Service Engineer, Sr.

Submitted by sukla on Tue, 2010-03-09 08:48
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Requisition ID 28692

Production 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, you'll utilize your 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 is a technical generalist with skills ranging from production systems/network management to software development.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

Skills/Requirements: 
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
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
Functions/Responsibilites: 
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
Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation

Location

Santa Clara, CA
United States
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Organization: 
Yahoo
Job Type: 
Full Time
Website: 
https://yahoo.recruitmax.com/MAIN/careerportal/Job_Profile.cfm?szOrderID=28692&szReturnToSearch=1&szWordsToHighlight=
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