Site Reliability Engineer, Production Reliability (Remote Canada)

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: were a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers mentors and teams. At the end of the day were all about helping our users growing as engineers and having fun in a collaborative environment.

Do you want to build and manage scaleable self-healing globally-distributed systems Our Site Reliability engineers keep Yelp fast available and growing connecting users to great local businesses. No matter how many times we get searched scraped scanned spammed pinged paged or queried we gotta keep our cool - and keep the site running smoothly.

We work in both the development and systems worlds implementing key parts of the core architecture and supporting developers as they try to do the same. We get to tackle interesting challenges that you can only find at the kind of scale that serves over 100 million users per month.

Youll work to empower Yelp: spinning up infrastructure should always be a git commit and a code review away with automation and self-service being at the core of what we do.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. Wed love to have you apply even if you dont feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp were looking for great people not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What youll do:

• Bring your curiosity tenacity and experience.
• 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 platforms SLOs.
• Ensure the reliability of Yelps 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 dont work at our scale and contribute upstream to open source projects.
• Design and implement new systems tests and procedures.
• 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!
• Bring your curiosity tenacity and experience.
• Working with engineers across Yelp in supporting new features and services.

What it takes to succeed:

• 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 global teams
• Own the total lifecycle of a system.

What youll get:

• There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range including but not limited to external market benchmark data and years of experience. Based on the anticipated level of experience that we are seeking we expect the compensation range for this role to be between $135000 and $185000 The actual compensation offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience and skill set.

  
  

  There may be flexibility with the range included in this posting should a candidate be leveled higher or lower than the posted range.

• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• This role is posted to fill an existing position.
• You can find more information about Yelps five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race age sexual orientation gender identity religion disability and education and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values which include Playing Well With Others and Authenticity.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin ancestry age genetic information sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status veteran status medical condition disability or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at or 1-.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1