Junior Site Reliability Engineer – Remote & Growth

Yelp; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Stock purchase plan

25 days holiday

Remote work stipend

Caregiver reimbursement

Hackathons

Job summary

Yelp is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in the United Kingdom to build and maintain scalable, self-healing systems. You will work across dev and systems domains, empowering product teams, and automating infrastructure with modern tooling.

You’ll monitor and improve site stability, troubleshoot issues with industry tools, own datastores like Cassandra and MySQL, and contribute to open source projects. Remote-friendly, UK-located team.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux-based systems (Ubuntu preferred).
• Proficient in Python or another modern language.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• IaC and configuration-management tooling familiarity.
• Linux containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) experience; datastore exposure (MySQL/Cassandra).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to support new features and services.
• Develop tools to monitor site stability and performance.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of infrastructure with SLOs.
• Troubleshoot site issues using Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Own and operate critical datastores (Cassandra, MySQL).
• Automate with Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, Terraform; leverage AI tooling.
• Create custom tools when off-the-shelf solutions fail at scale.
• Participate in light on-call rotations across distributed teams.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Go

Java

C++

Linux basics

Networking basics

Monitoring concepts

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Jenkins

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

MySQL

Cassandra

Job description

Yelp is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in the United Kingdom to build and maintain scalable, self-healing systems. You will work across dev and systems domains, empowering product teams, and automating infrastructure with modern tooling.

You’ll monitor and improve site stability, troubleshoot issues with industry tools, own datastores like Cassandra and MySQL, and contribute to open source projects. Remote-friendly, UK-located team.