Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether youre looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business and the world.Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.About the TeamYahoos Global Network Infrastructure team (GNIS) is responsible for the core Network Infrastructure and shared services required to support all Yahoo services globally, including our CDN, Sports, News, Finance and Weather media channels, advertising engines, video and search.We design and build scalable, high-performance networks, provide long-term storage strategy and automation, manage global name resolution and routing, provide capacity and performance consultation for Yahoo properties, manage Yahoo-wide UNIX distributions & components and connectivity to large scale public cloud providers.About the RoleYahoo's Global Network team is looking for a highly technical Principal Network Engineer to be part of the team that designs the next generation of our global infrastructure. This person will work with internal and external customers to gather requirements and provide design solutions to address our ever growing network. This position requires a highly technical person who has a very deep understanding of routing protocols, in-depth knowledge of the current interconnection and peering landscape, good operational experience and the ability to isolate, analyze and resolve issues.Required QualificationsAnalyze business requirements and translate them into actionable technical requirementsIdentify/evaluate new features and enhancements, then work to develop and operationalize themParticipate in and/or lead vendor evaluations and architectural reviewsServe as the Tier III response for all escalated network issues and customer complaintsCreate and define network requirements for new products, including technical documentation for all relevant processes and technologies.Create and/or improve the tools that provide insight into availability and performance of our global networkCreate the SOP's and automate repeatable operational workCreate and assist in the development of automation tools and processes that proactively monitor the health of the network, respond to events, and prevent their recurrences along with driving down time to resolutionCreate and leverage telemetry, analytics and learning pipelines to better monitor, measure, and debug the networkCreate and leverage network tooling to identify and mitigate network anomaliesResponsible for identifying problem areas in a proactive way and developing solutions to meet the challenges of a global networkPreferred QualificationsExperience with IP network design at large scale, multi-vendor environments, including one or more of Junos, Cisco, Arista, et alStrong working knowledge of all OSI Layers focusing on the network stack - TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, MPLS, and anycast conceptsKnowledge of current networking systems including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and all IP-based protocolsProficient with Linux, open source projects, agile development frameworks and best practicesGeneralized network diagramming and network documentation knowledge requiredExperience with containerization as well as with any of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP, etc)Working knowledge of DevOps or SRE methodologiesExperience with version Control using Git/GithubHighly responsible, self-motivated, and able to work with minimal supervisionProgressive mindset, forward thinking, desire to make game changing transformations to non-optimal operational workflowWilling to take ownership of complex problems and see them through to resolutionDesire to provide mentoring to junior members of the team to improve time to productivityAbility to handle multiple tasks under pressure and prioritize projects and establish schedules for their timely completionResource oriented, with the ability to adapt to a constantly changing technical environmentEnergetic and fast paced individual who thrives in a high growth, entrepreneurial environmentExcellent organizational and follow up skillsStrong communicator with the ability to build relationships at all levels of an organizationYahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles dont require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, youll be given notice to make arrangements.If youre curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

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