Software Engineer , SRE Tooling & Reliability Platforms

Yahoo is a technology company that connects brands and partners with a vast audience. They are seeking a Software Dev Engineer I to build and maintain services for their incident management platform, focusing on AI-driven solutions to enhance operational efficiency and resilience.

Responsibilities:

• Build, deploy, and maintain high-availability services that integrate our core Incident Management tools with Yahoo’s internal ecosystem
• Develop new AI services and agents that ingest massive amounts of telemetry to provide on-call engineers with real-time summaries, historical context, and automated root-cause hypotheses
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) to manage serverless infrastructure, ensuring reliability tools are as resilient as the services they monitor
• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in your day-to-day development, replacing manual, repetitive tasks with automated or AI-assisted workflows
• Leverage AI pair-programming tools to accelerate code reviews and ensure high unit-test coverage for all new reliability services
• Verify and validate AI-generated code and infrastructure outputs to ensure they meet Yahoo’s security and resilience standards

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python or Go preferred)
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, or Cursor)
• Understanding of Linux/Unix environments and basic networking concepts
• Familiarity with Git and version control
• Experience with Cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures
• Demonstrated experience using Prompt Engineering to assist in debugging complex system failures or generating technical documentation
• Interest in Machine Learning applications for DevOps and site reliability