Software Engineer (Global Search, Backend)

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. 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.

About Us

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?

Search is the starting point to online experiences – whether you’re looking for the perfect gift, a new restaurant or the answer to any question you may have.

Yahoo! Search is one of the most highly-scaled web platforms on the planet, serving over 100 million global users every month across Yahoo branded sites and partner networks. Search engineers develop features for this infrastructure that present many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, multi-terabyte storage systems, and high-performance computing. It demands knowledge of software design principles, systems programming, algorithms, data structures, Java and/or C++.

Yahoo! Search team is innovating in areas such as Vertical Search and Content Recommendations for consumers, distribution of Search and Media services for partners, and Small Business Services for merchants.

About You

You have a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the user experience. You want to make web applications and systems faster, more reliable, more efficient and scalable. You are interested in how search engines work and information retrieval techniques .

Your Day

You will collaborate directly with key engineering and product stakeholders, in an agile environment where we ship features frequently to make a real impact to the users. You will analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions and ad matching techniques; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed service.

You could work on various domains from understanding user's queries, content retrieval, to search ranking model and performance optimization. You will use big data and AI technologies to build scalable solutions and provide optimized experience for different use cases. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field

• Expert in SQL for querying, optimizing, and managing relational and NoSQL databases, with experience in complex data modeling and ETL processes.

• Experience in Java for building scalable data processing solutions

• Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing using distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Apache Spark, Flink) for batch and real-time data workflows

• Skilled in designing and maintaining ETL pipelines, integrating data from diverse sources, transforming it, and loading it into scalable data storage systems.

• Tuning Expertise in optimizing large datasets for performance and scalability, including query tuning, data partitioning, and distributed processing optimizations.

• Excellent communication skills and good team player.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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