Meet the People and Technology Behind Yelp
Hear how remote-first teams work together to power Yelp’s infrastructure. Yelp, the company that connects people to great local businesses, continuously strives to improve its products and work culture. During this virtual event, they shared insights on the technology that powers Yelp’s engineering infrastructure and…
About this event
Hear how remote-first teams work together to power Yelp’s infrastructure.
Yelp, the company that connects people to great local businesses, continuously strives to improve its products and work culture. During this virtual event, they shared insights on the technology that powers Yelp’s engineering infrastructure and how their distributed environment empowers teams to thrive.
Watch the recording to:
- 📣 Hear what it’s like to work at Yelp
- 🔓 Dive into Yelp’s infrastructure technology
- 🌱 Learn how they support professional development
- 📈 Gain advice + industry insights
Agenda:
- 3:00 PM GMT/ 4:00 PM CET - PowerToFly Kickoff
- 3:05 PM GMT/ 4:05 PM CET - Welcome Address/Tech Talk from Rakhi Salanke, Engineering Manager, Database Reliability Engineering SQL
- 3:15 PM GMT/ 4:15 PM CET - Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A featuring:
- Eman Elsabban, SRE - Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience
- Rob Johnson, Software Engineer
- Jason Perrin, Software Engineer, Observability Platform
- 4:25 PM GMT/ 5:25 PM CET - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
- 4:30 PM GMT/ 5:30 PM CET - Event Concludes
About Yelp: Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.
About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,500+ events across the world with brands like Meta, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.
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Agenda
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Where you could fit in
The team is actively hiring. Here are a few open roles this event is built around.
Meet the speakers
Eman Elsabban
SRE - Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience
Eman is a site reliability engineer on the Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience Team at Yelp. She joined Yelp in August 2022. Prior to joining Yelp, she received her Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. Eman is based in Toronto and enjoys going for walks and playing sports in her free time.
Rob Johnson
Software Engineer
Rob is a software engineer and group technical lead who works on Yelp's Compute Platform that developers use to build, deploy, and run their software in production. He works closely with engineering leaders across the company to ensure that Yelp's infrastructure is delivering the most important requirements for the business and drives a technical roadmap that provides an industry-leading experience for the developers who use it every day. He has been at Yelp for eight years, working as a site reliability and software engineer.
Jason Perrin
Software Engineer, Observability Platform
Jason has been a site reliability engineer at Yelp for the past 5.5 years. He has primarily worked on improving the Slack bot tooling around incident response within the company and providing the latest Ubuntu OS release for other teams to use in their kubernetes services and EC2 instances. He also loves removing tech debt with tenacity wherever possible. On weekends (when not on call anyway), Jason likes to make pottery on the wheel, go on bike rides, and eat burritos.
Rakhi Salanke
Engineering Manager, Database
Rakhi is an engineering manager for the Database Reliability Engineering team at Yelp. She has been with Yelp for four + years, and has worked extensively with SQL databases and infrastructure. She has been leading Awesome Women in Engineering’s Public Speaking space for three years. Prior to joining Yelp, Rakhi was a database engineer working for Electronic Arts Inc. Rakhi is a mom to 2 little ones and loves cooking and gardening.
Yelp
Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.
Who We Are
We’re passionate about connecting people with great local businesses. At Yelp, we’re bringing together world-class talent from different experiences, disciplines, and areas of study to produce a world-class product. We provide just the place for fostering diverse communities that make a large impact.
We are one dynamic company with many unique teams. Across our various departments, whether sales, engineering, or marketing, our employees comprise an eager community working in service of our mission and company goals.
Yelp employees live, work and play in five-star cities throughout the United States and Europe.
Our Belief in Diversity
At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and that’s just a few. We’re committed to increasing diversity and transparency both here at Yelp and in Silicon Valley.
Our Belief in Inclusiveness
At Yelp, inclusiveness is just as important as diversity. We cultivate a sense of belonging through company supported employee resource and affinity groups: Awesome Women in Engineering, :, DiverseBurst, Health & Wellness, OUTburst, VetConnect, Women at Yelp, Yelp Parents, YelpCares and many more!
Our Values
Our values are what drive us forward. They provide the framework for making decisions like who we hire, who we promote, and how we get things done. If it’s unauthentic and boring you can bet it’s not happening at Yelp.
- Be Unboring
- Be Tenacious
- Play Well With Others
- Be Authentic
- Protect Your Source
Live your best life with five-star benefits
We know that keeping you healthy and wise translates to an overall better work experience. Whether it's world-class health benefits, support for your family, or a wellness reimbursement, we believe happy employees are successful employees.
- Health benefits: Our employees are offered various coverage options for medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Employee stock purchase plan: Become a Yelp shareholder by purchasing stock at a discount.
- Paid time off programs: Take time to rest, recharge, and recover with paid wellness time, vacation, holidays, and one floating holiday per year.
- Mental health support and services via Talkspace: Get easy access to mental health support and services via Talkspace, an online therapy and psychiatry service.
- Adoption, daycare, and baby bonding leave: Start or grow your family with confidence. From adoption assistance to backup daycare and paid time off for new parents, you’ll have support for your family.
- Transgender benefits: Live life authentically with a comprehensive list of benefits for transgender and non-binary individuals.
- Work from home reimbursement: Make your work from home experience more comfortable and productive with a monthly reimbursement.
- Wellness reimbursement: Whether it’s fitness clothes, a massage, or a gym membership, get reimbursed every month to keep up your self-care habits.
- Corporate discounts: Save some cash with corporate perks and discounts at local and national stores, cafes, fitness centers, and more.
Ready to start living your five-star career at Yelp? Apply today!
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