Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Production Engineering (Remote - United Kingdom)

Requirements:

• Mastery of Linux (we use Ubuntu but any distro is fine), with the view of debugging ambiguous OS behaviours!!
• Command of your favorite modern programming language to appreciate delivering safe and secure services: Python, Typescript, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, C++, etc.
• A solid understanding of Internet fundamental technologies in delivering services on the Internet (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, etc).
• Experience with public cloud platforms (we use AWS and GCP, but others are also fine) and related tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.).
• Experience with Linux containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Podman and Kubernetes).
• Self-motivated to investigate, fix and improve Yelp in an ever changing environment.
• Leading, Collaborating and Sharing technical activities with teams.
• Own the total lifecycle of a system.

What you'll be doing:

• Working with engineers across Yelp in supporting new features and services.
• Integrating tools to monitor platform stability and performance.
• Help scale our Kubernetes clusters and AWS-based infrastructure while maintaining our platform's SLOs.
• Ensure the reliability of Yelp’s primary datastores (MySQL and Cassandra).
• Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Automate everything with Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, Terraform and more!
• Develop custom tools, when off-the-shelf solutions don’t work at our scale and contribute upstream to open source projects.
• Design and implement new systems, tests, and procedures
• Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.
• Bring your curiosity, tenacity and experience.
• Participate in light on-call rotations - we have geographically distributed SRE teams for follow-the-sun support, which reduces the need to be on-call 24h a day!

Perks and Benefits:

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
• £150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
• £81 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.
• Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.
• £81 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.
• Quarterly team offsites.