Software Development Engineer

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 Bit About Us
Yahoo's Data and Common Solutions team works on one of the biggest online advertising data sets in the world. We are responsible for providing fast, clean, reliable, and relevant data for Yahoo's advertising businesses as well as key measurements and insights about Yahoo users. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable data platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges.
A Lot About You
We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join the Data and Common Solutions team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection and transport to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency data retrieval, reporting, and analytical systems.
We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.
Your Day

• Working through documents and conversations with colleagues to understand product requirements for new features
• Shaping those requirements into design documents and software implementation
• Testing and debugging both your own software and some written by others
• Analyzing and refactoring existing software to enhance its reliability, scale, performance, supportability, and operability
• Helping your team figure out priorities and processes and what's next
• Playing with your friends in some of our local games and contests, from trivia to table tennis, puzzle building, escape rooms and more.

Requirements

• A solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices
• Computer Science degree or relevant experience
• The ability to use an object oriented programming language like Java or C++, scripting languages like Python or Perl, and Unix or Linux systems
• Excellent design, coding, debugging and testing skills
• The expertise to manipulate data through query languages
• Facility with data concepts such as joins, aggregation, projection, and explosion
• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
• Excellent problem solving and organizational skills
• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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