Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming

Yelp

Posted 2mo ago

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Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Kafka clusters
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

Solid SRE or infrastructure engineering foundation
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Experience with 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

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