Entry Level – Site Reliability Engineer
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Entry-level Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp keeping platforms fast and reliable. Collaborating with global teams to maintain and improve infrastructure and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a globally distributed team based in multiple countries.
- Collaborate with engineers in supporting new features and services.
- Build tools to monitor site stability and performance.
- Help ensure the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure, while maintaining platform Service Level Objectives(SLOs).
- Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
- Develop your skills in Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform to automate everything and leverage an extensive suite of AI tooling.
- Develop custom tools when off-the-shelf solutions don’t work at our scale and contribute upstream to open source projects.
- Participate in light on-call rotations - we have geographically distributed SRE teams for follow-the-sun support, which means nobody needs to be on-call 24h a day!
Requirements:
- All communication for this role, both spoken and written, will be conducted in English.
- Familiarity with Linux and an enthusiasm for learning more (we use Ubuntu but any distribution is fine).
- Skill in at least one of your favourite modern programming languages: Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C++, etc.
- Knowledge of public cloud platforms (we use AWS, but experience with Azure/GCP is fine).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or similar).
- Familiarity with Linux containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes).
- Understanding of core networking/web concepts at a fundamentals level.
- Exposure to monitoring concepts and best practices around performance, reliability and security.
- An eagerness to ask questions, take initiative and learn everyday.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and bonus structure
- A competitive benefits package that includes paid time off and remote work reimbursements
- Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays
- Regular 3-day Hackathons and bi-weekly learning groups
- Opportunities to participate in virtual events and conferences
- Quarterly team offsites
















