Platform Engineer: CI/CD & AI Workflows

102 Yahoo Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

The Central Tech DX team at Yahoo is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to own key CI/CD initiatives and guide AI-assisted workflows. You will develop reusable pipelines, improve artifact management, and help squads adopt standardized, secure deployment practices.

You will also mentor teams during platform rollouts and drive observability and reliability improvements. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional squads, owning migration efforts, and delivering scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software development or platform engineering experience, with focus on CI/CD pipeline design and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and reusable workflow modules.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, debugging, and documentation.
• Experience with artifact management platforms and release promotion patterns.
• Ability to own and deliver squad-level software features and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver key components of developer platform initiatives across CI/CD modernization, artifact management, developer tooling, and ArgoCD rollouts.
• Utilize AI pair-programming and automation tools to rapidly generate and test reusable CI/CD actions and platform scripts.
• Inspect and troubleshoot automated configurations and ensure production correctness and security standards.
• Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates and clear developer playbooks and migration guides.
• Support artifact publish/consume patterns and CI compute runner optimization; resolve complex pipeline issues.
• Serve as a primary technical contact for application squads during platform rollouts.

Skills

CI/CD design

GitOps

AI tools

Artifactory

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ArgoCD

Artifactory

GitHub Copilot

Anthropic Claude

Job description

The Central Tech DX team at Yahoo is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to own key CI/CD initiatives and guide AI-assisted workflows. You will develop reusable pipelines, improve artifact management, and help squads adopt standardized, secure deployment practices.

You will also mentor teams during platform rollouts and drive observability and reliability improvements. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional squads, owning migration efforts, and delivering scalable