Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Take responsibility for the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Kafka clusters in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

• Develop and sustain automation for cluster operations, upgrades, capacity scaling, and incident recovery.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to facilitate new streaming use cases, provide best practice guidance, and ensure the reliability of data pipelines.

• Diagnose complex issues impacting data flow, performance, or stability, and spearhead root cause analyses.

• Carry out Kafka version upgrades and platform migrations with minimal impact on critical services.

• Participate in on-call rotations. Our geographically distributed SRE teams utilize a “follow-the-sun” model, ensuring that no one is required to be on-call 24/7!

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong foundation in SRE or infrastructure engineering: experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or a similar tool), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and Linux operations.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar technologies at scale, including cluster upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning.

• Proficiency in programming with Python, Java, or similar languages for tooling and automation purposes.

• Excellent debugging and systems-thinking abilities, capable of tracing data flow issues end-to-end across distributed systems.

• Nice to Have

• Experience with Apache Flink or other stream processing frameworks.

• Familiarity with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams).

• Experience in developing internal self-service tools or developer platforms.

• Background in incident response and management.

🏝️ Benefits

• There may be flexibility with the range included in this posting should a candidate be leveled higher or lower than the posted range. This opportunity offers the option to work fully remotely from any location in the US. More information about Yelp's five-star benefits can be found here!