Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a technology company that connects brands with audiences globally. They are seeking a strategic Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Tooling & Reliability Platforms team, focusing on building efficient platforms that enhance product reliability through automation and AI-driven solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow a high-performing team
- Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in the product lifecycle to accelerate platform delivery and engineering productivity
- Treat the reliability stack as a product
- Define the roadmap for the Incident Management platform, ensuring these tools reduce cognitive load for hundreds of service teams by replacing manual investigation steps with AI-assisted workflows
- Drive the integration of GenAI and SRE Agents into production environments
- Establish frameworks for validating AI-generated incident summaries and hypothesis generation to ensure accuracy and prevent automated hallucinations
- Define the vision for the next generation of Resilience Engineering, focusing on building services that make products inherently resilient through automated alert diagnostics and self-healing systems
- Act as a high-leverage partner to our key vendors, holding them accountable for roadmap delivery and ensuring their features align with our team vision
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience leading SRE or DevOps teams in a high-scale, cloud-native environment
- Strong background in Software Engineering (Python, Go, or Java) and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Deep familiarity with incident management and AIOps tools (e.g., Rootly, PagerDuty, BigPanda)
- Experience evaluating and refining AI-generated outputs in a technical or operational context
- Proven ability to collaborate with SaaS partners to influence a collective product vision
- Comfort operating in an evolving, AI-augmented environment with a focus on continuous learning
- East coast timezone preference
- Experience with BCP/DR planning or Chaos Engineering
- Previous experience implementing large-scale AIOps or 'Self-Healing' infrastructure initiatives
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
Company Overview
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.yahoo.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Yahoo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 197 in 2023, 646 in 2022, 381 in 2021, 463 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.