Senior Software Engineer - Yahoo Engineering

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
A Little About Us:
Yahoo's data warehouse team manages massive scale (100+ petabyte) data systems to glean insights on Yahoo products and to improve the experience for its 1B+ user base. The team interacts and works across multiple organizations at Yahoo to grow user engagement and user experience across Yahoo product portfolio. Your work will directly influence product changes and you will work with some of the brightest engineers you have known to improve the user experience on popular Yahoo sites and apps like Yahoo Mail & Homepage, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News, HuffPost and many other new products .The team's work and initiatives directly result in product impacts influencing company's user growth and revenue. Along the way, you will solve problems for an Internet Pioneer, that is hard to match in the industry.
A Lot about You

• Apply software engineering expertise to build high-performance, scalable data warehouse.
• Design, build and launch efficient & reliable data pipelines to move and transform multiple petabyte(s) scale data.
• Build real time analytics and ingestion pipelines that is capable of processing 100s of thousands of events per second and provide insights interactively (within seconds)
• Interact with product owners and end users to understand their needs and solve it.
• Deliver data with highest quality through rigorous check.
• Have excellent data modeling skills to understand the nuances of various dimension and metric types in the warehouse.
• Design workflows to ingest, load and present new data sets for users.
• Provide active support, be on rotation for on-call support on production pipelines (typically a couple of times each quarter).
• Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership.
• Work with the production engineering / infrastructure team to drive resolution to production issues.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science and/or Mathematics/Statistics.
• 5+ years of Java and/or Python development experience
• 3+ years experience in the data pipeline and analytics space with experience across technology stacks - pipelines , webservices and UI .
• 3+ years experience in custom ETL design using Big Data stack environments (Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, AWS EMR, Apache Beam, Google Cloud Platform Dataflow, BigQuery), implementation and maintenance.
• Experience working with either a Map Reduce or any other Parallel data processing system.
• Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling..
• Comfortable at writing complex sql queries.

• Experience or familiarity with either of the tools : kafka, storm,spark streaming, druid, ElasticSearch
• Strong data mindset with a deep appreciation for analyzing data to identify product gaps and enhancements to improve user engagement and revenue growth.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to tell insightful stories using data and also manage communication within internal teams and stakeholders.

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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
The compensation for this position ranges from $117,000.00 - $243,125.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.
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