Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yelp is a company that values individual authenticity and creative problem-solving within its engineering culture. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the infrastructure and operational health of their real-time streaming platform, ensuring reliability and scalability while driving automation and self-service solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Kafka clusters across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
- Build and maintain automation for cluster operations, upgrades, capacity scaling, and incident recovery
- Partner with engineering teams to enable new streaming use cases, advise on best practices, and ensure data pipeline reliability
- Troubleshoot complex issues affecting data flow, performance, or stability, and lead root cause analyses
- Execute Kafka version upgrades and platform migrations with minimal disruption to critical services
- Participate in on-call rotations. Our geographically distributed SRE teams use a “follow-the-sun” model, so no one needs to be on-call 24 hours a day!
Skills
- Solid SRE or infrastructure engineering foundation: experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and Linux operations
- Production level experience with Kafka or similar technologies at scale including cluster upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning
- Programming proficiency in Python, Java, or similar for tooling and automation
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, comfortable tracing data flow issues end-to-end across distributed systems
- Experience with Apache Flink or other stream processing frameworks
- Familiarity with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams)
- Experience building internal self-service tooling or developer platforms
- Experience with incident response and management
Benefits
- Yelp's five star benefits
- The opportunity to work fully remote in all locations across the US
- Support from managers, mentors, and teams
- Participation in on-call rotations using a “follow-the-sun” model, so no one needs to be on-call 24 hours a day
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in the job application process
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