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Service Engineer (Unix Systems Engineer)
Submitted by sukla on Sat, 2010-09-04 09:52
Requisition ID 31159
Service Engineer (Unix Systems Engineer), Yahoo! Groups
The Yahoo! Groups Service Engineering team is looking for an experienced Service Engineer / System Engineer to join us in expanding and operating the ever-evolving Yahoo! Groups platform. We’re driven by a truly diverse array of technologies on the front and back-end; we’re massively expanding our search platform and we work very closely to other Yahoo properties: Mail, Answers, Flickr and Messenger, to ensure we deliver the best experience possible to our customers.
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:
The ideal candidate enjoys a fun and very busy work environment, will jump in to debug and fix things, and multitasks and context-switches well.
Candidate is talented across a variety of disciplines including: System Administration, Network Operations, Software Development, Build and Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, Site Operations.
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
Minimum 5+ years of industry experience
Prior experience supporting 24x7, highly-available, service-oriented, distributed production system (>500 systems) and will eventually participate in on-call support rotation.
Strong understanding of best practices around web operations, software development, release engineering, quality assurance.
Strong written & oral communication skills are essential. Proven ability to write bugs, test cases, problem reports.
Substantial experience administering, supporting, debugging and tuning:
Unix-based OSes: Linux and FreeBSD on x86 hardware
Web servers & proxies Apache, Squid, Trafficserver
Servlet containers: Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty
Monitoring: Nagios, rrd.
RDBMSes: Oracle 10/11, MySQL 4/5
Enjoys scripting and has excellent shell and scripting skills: bash, Python, Ruby, Perl. Experience programming in C++ or Java a plus.
Hands on experience w/ revision control, build & release tools: Subversion, Perforce, CVS, make, ant, bamboo.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers, highly available network servers
Functions/Responsibilites:
Ramp up and contribute to the day to day operations of the Groups platform. Operate and improve the site by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy and business-continuity planning.
Contribute to the rapid expansion of the Groups search subsystem, configuring pools, establish monitoring, automation.
Work with the QA and Dev teams to ensure high priority issues are reported, triaged and resolved quickly and correctly.
Work closely with the Product, Development and QA teams to plan releases, features under development, research, experiments and capacity expansions too.
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
United States
Organization:
Website:
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