Hello, Unfortunately not strictly NetBSD related, but since NetBSD people are smart people and probably would enjoy working in the given environment, and we are dealing with a number of other BSD flavors or variants... Yahoo! is looking for a Distributed Applications Operations Engineer The full job posting is as follows (also available at http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?frm=jsres&oid=19743): ==== Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people. In the Yahoo Search Technology team, we build scalable systems to discover, archive, analyze and index billions of documents accessible on the Web. With the help of cutting edge scoring algorithms and an extremely high performance runtime querying system capable of serving millions of queries a day, we positively affect the lives of people every day. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed/grid computing, peta-byte scale storage systems, high-performance and high availability computing. We are looking for a senior systems engineer to join the YST Content Operations team. This team is responsible for operations and operations related infrastructure development, for our core crawling and indexing systems. Do you like putting all the components of a system together and seeing it run? Does the challenge of debugging an elusive network issue sound fun? Would you enjoy hammering different hardware configurations to figure out how to achieve the most cost-effective performance? As a key member of the team you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining large distributed applications that are core to the Yahoo Web Search product. You will be responsible for troubleshooting production problems and optimizing performance. You must be a self starter and able to solve a wide variety of complex problems in innovative and practical ways. Yahoo Web Search, is passionate about building the world¹s best search engine! Search is one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet. It is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. We're looking for world-class talent to join our team. If you have a desire to be part of building the best and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to us. Responsibilities: * Support production deployments of large-scale, distributed applications. * Deployment of new releases and hardware. * Monitor cluster health and performance. Diagnose and solve issues independently. * Building infrastructure to streamline operations. * Document tools and operational procedures. * Automate recurring tasks as appropriate. * Participate in capacity planning and hardware requirements analysis. Required Qualifications/Education: * BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems (or equivalent) * 3+ year(MS) or 5+ years(BS) of industry experience * 2+ years experience operating large distributed applications on Unix * System/Network Administration in a Unix environment, preferably * hundreds of nodes * Scripting: Shell/Perl/Python/Tcl * Excellent planning, communication and interpersonal skills * Strong focus on maintaining a high Quality of Service. Desired Additional Experience: * Familiar with cluster computing platforms such as Condor/Torque/Maui/Hadoop * Hands-on experience with monitoring frameworks such as Nagios * LAMP development/administration is a plus * Application and hardware performance benchmarking Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com. ==== This position is in Santa Clara, CA. If you're interested, email me your resume in .txt, .html or .pdf format and I'll pass it on. -Jan
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