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Software Engineer - Infrastructure (San Francisco) Yelp’s Infrastructure team designs, implements, and maintains scalable software architectures that are at the heart of our technology. We do everything from build performance monitoring tools, to design APIs and develop libraries. Is building large scale distributed systems, debugging systems and optimizing network performance is a way of life for you? Does helping enable hundreds of engineers to safely and quickly deploy their features into production get you excited? While serving millions of active Yelp users? If so, come join the team that is the glue that connects Yelp’s feature teams to their underlying software infrastructure - in the data centers, up in the cloud, or anywhere in between. You will Design, build and deploy software systems that run 24/7 at increasing scale Develop custom tools and automate processes to find answers to challenging questions and reveal the unknown Write code, document, participate in code reviews, and mentor other engineers Requirements Strong knowledge of systems and application design, with an understanding of operational and reliability trade-offs Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis Strong understanding of Linux or Unix-like operating systems Solid understanding of fundamental protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS Strong understanding of web technology Fluency in Python, C, C++, Java, or a similar language Ability to work well with and able to influence many personality types at all levels of the organization Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills Pluses Experience building distributed systems Experience at a large-scale consumer internet site Experience with configuration a management tool (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, CFEngine), monitoring (Nagios, Sensu, Monit), metrics (Graphite, statsd) Experience with AWS Experience with web frameworks Apply here: http://www.yelp.com/careers?jvi=oWxPZfw1,Job