Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming (Remote - United States)

Benefits

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Verification

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Salary

$141K-$216K From the posting source

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

53% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source

Seniority

Mid From the posting source

Work mode

Remote From the posting source

In-office days

0 days From the posting source

Schedule

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Company

Equity

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Deadline

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Where they hire

Hires in: CA, IL, NY, WA From the posting source

About this role

Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming (Remote - United States) San Francisco, CA, US; New York City, NY, US; Chicago, IL, US; Seattle, WA, US; Remote-Remote, UNAVAILABLE, US Summary Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we're a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we're all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment. Do you want to help build and operate scalable, resilient systems that power Yelp's critical business functions? Our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) ensure our services remain fast, reliable, and available, even as we grow and requirements evolve. As an SRE specializing in Kafka, you'll play a pivotal role in managing our real-time data streaming infrastructure and supporting event-driven applications at scale. We work at the intersection of software development and distributed systems, owning the backbone of our organization's streaming architecture. As a Kafka SRE, you'll take on challenges only found at the kind of scale that supports global, always-on applications. Yelp processes massive amounts of user data daily-over 300 million business reviews, 100,000 photo uploads, and countless check-ins. Maintaining sub-minute data freshness with such high volume presents an exciting technical problem and a very interesting area to work in. You'll drive best practices in automation and self-service, knowing that deploying or upgrading data streaming infrastructure

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