What do a user searching for their favorite brunch spot, an entrepreneur looking to grow their business, and a homeowner trying to find a dependable contractor have in common? Yelp, of course! Spread across 32 countries and listed as one of the top internet properties in the US, Yelp is on a mission to help people connect with great local businesses one review at a time.  

Our infrastructure teams design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems that power all of Yelp’s platforms and features. We love to scale complex systems while maintaining high reliability, get a thrill out of making our infrastructure elastic, and care about providing an exceptional developer experience for engineers across the company. As an infrastructure engineer manager, you’ll enjoy leading and inspiring a team of skilled engineers to develop the next generation of our data and production infrastructure to support Yelp’s ever-growing scale.

Where You Come In:

• Managing a team of infrastructure, backend and full stack Engineers.
• Helping the team stay happy and productive by removing obstacles and optimizing team processes
• Coaching and mentoring engineers of all experience levels, from recent graduates to senior engineers
• Working with the team and the Product Manager to develop and own a product vision that you’ll communicate to the company
• Building and maintaining relationships with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Executives
• Participating in the hiring process
• Defining SLAs and monitor availability & performance of the systems that form the foundation of the data platform
• Scaling infrastructure to meet demand while keeping an eye on cost efficiency
• Willing to roll up your sleeves and debug/tune/code/fix alongside your team and driving technical incident response

What it Takes to Succeed:

• Previous experience as a technical lead or manager, with the empathy and communication skills to match
• You take a “people first” approach and a deep care for healthy team culture
• Previous experience with building and scaling A/B testing tools and platforms, end-to-end analytics pipelines that span the gamut of data capture, transport, storage and query
• Experience building engineering solutions to implement concepts such as data meshes, data lakes and data governance
• Deep understanding of analytics systems like Google Analytics / Tableau
• Experience using cloud computing services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• You can command your favorite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Java, C++, etc.

What You'll Get:

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, an awesome team, and a dynamic work environment
• Competitive salary with equity in the company, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase program
• 25 days paid holiday initially, rising to 29 with service
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision
• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays
• Regular 3-day Hackathons and weekly learning groups, always with interesting topics
• Opportunities to participate in events and conferences throughout Europe and the US