Sr Software Development Engineer

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

About Yahoo

Yahoo is a global media and tech company connecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide to their passions. We provide trusted products, content, and technology spanning finance, sports, shopping, gaming, news, search, and mail. For partners, we offer a full-stack platform to amplify growth and drive meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

About Research

Yahoo Research is at the forefront of developing intuitive, intelligent, and forward-looking products across our brand portfolio. We harness AI and emerging technologies to shape the next generation of Yahoo, hiring world-class engineers to support our ambitious product and platform goals. Our engineers thrive in a highly collaborative environment with a strong emphasis on technical excellence and innovation. This is a unique opportunity as we reimagine the future of Search, reinventing how users find information and accomplish their goals. To achieve this vision, we are integrating new technology and expanding our infrastructure. This role demands strategic partnership, analytical thinking, exceptional planning and execution skills, ambitious innovation, an obsession with quality and user needs, a passion for solving complex problems, and the commitment to implement durable solutions quickly and effectively. If you enjoy being part of high-performing teams, this role is for you!

About You

You are passionate about software development and building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth. You look for ways to grow your skill set and value high quality application development on modern tech stacks in the cloud. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work. You will work closely with the product and design teams to plan, experiment and release features in collaboration with other engineering partners and business stakeholders. If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who care about code quality, architecture, design and user experience as much as having fun together, then we’d like to talk to you.

 

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable data pipelines and systems to transform large volumes of data into information for operational and financial decision making

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products

• Perform code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model

• Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes

• Collaborate with other engineers and architects in design discussions to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

• Perform continuous integration to ensure that every step of a data pipeline is testable and automated

• Understand and anticipate business needs and fix issues reported by customers

• Lead technical implementations and mentor colleagues

• Leverage data engineering industry trends in order to align on best practices for developing performant data workflows using cloud native technologies

• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise

 

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent degree/experience

• 5+ years of industry experience working with large-scale distributed data systems

• 7+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Java, Python, Spark, PySpark, etc.)

• Experience working on data-driven products with Strong experience REST, HTTP, BQETL, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs