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

Summary 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 automa