Data Engineer

Contenido de trabajo

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?

Data Engineer

A Little About Us

Yahoo! is a global company that provides media and web services in many countries. In Yahoo!, our mission is to Build Brands People Love. So whenever we go into client meetings, we call out and focus on the “YOURS” on this slide.

The Data and EC Planning team, a subdivision of Strategy and Biz Ops, TW, offers various data-related services such as data/business analytics, CRM, data science, BI, etc., and Biz Ops support to vital senior stakeholders. Our mission is to create value from the audience, transaction, and advertising data by building a logical data foundation, generating actionable business insights, and identifying new business opportunities that improve our user/partner/advertiser’s experiences and grow our business.

A Lot About You

A data engineer is expected to work with our data scientist to apply engineering thinking and techniques to improve the system performance and effectiveness of our products and consolidate machine learning mechanisms. You might also need to perform system performance tuning for online serving, cloud computing, code refactoring, and infrastructure designing. You will have the opportunity to publish your work and expand the horizons of web science and the experience of building online systems.

You will provide infrastructure designing, code development, execution, and innovation across specific engagements. The role is expected to collaborate with data scientists, business units, and analysts. The ideal candidate would have a strong understanding of web service development, java programming, and data ETL pipeline development.

Your Day

• Responsible for working with relevant customer groups to inject innovation into business processes and create feature backlogs and related user stories.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other stakeholder groups such as Business units, Product, Engineering & Operation Org, and senior management
• Grow the technical expertise of your teams by leveraging state of the art tools
• Communicate cross-team dependency issues quickly and follows up to ensure prompt resolution
• Ability to work on multiple streams/features simultaneously, keep momentum on each, and manage client expectations
• Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Help with ongoing management of and maintenance of technical systems
  
  

You Must Have

• An excellent coder with proficient object-oriented programming skills (Java). Familiar with Spark.
• Great on API and service architecture design. A proven ability to create robust and reusable data services.
• Have good communication capability to work with the product owners and data scientists.
• Have a strong passion for delivering data insights and data services by leveraging a scalable machine learning cloud platform
• Linux/Unix experience.
• BS or MS in Computer Science
• Have solid passions and interests in big data processing and parallel distributed computing.
• it’s a plus to have experience in Big Data and streaming solutions, such as Redis, Vespa, Kafka, Hbase, Spark streaming, and Storm
  
  

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.

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.

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