Software Engineer (Big Data)

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 the team

We are a distributed team of professionals that builds and supports the DSP Reporting platform. Yahoo’s reporting and analytics service that serves hundreds of thousands queries per day from petabytes size data warehouses. 

Who We’re Looking For

We hire people who love the Internet, but can see its cracks... and future, too. We look for people who are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about tech. Our DSP Reporting team is currently looking for talented engineers who can design, implement and support robust, scalable and high quality reporting solutions.

Your Responsibilities

• Utilizes experience with distributed file systems, database architecture, and data modeling to organize and process large data sets;

• Identify potential performance bottlenecks and scalability issues to justify or critique the design; 

• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help to define, build, and deliver new features in our state of the art reporting and analytics solution.

• Share responsibilities like system architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning and production support

• Own and deliver - from the small must-do tasks to larger, complex projects with many moving parts

• Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!

What You Bring:

• Ability to work in a fast paced, intellectually challenging and highly technical environment;

• Experienced in Java/Scala/Spark/SQL; 

• Good knowledge and experience with big data technologies including Hadoop/Hive/Spark/Flink is highly desirable;

• Good knowledge and experience with big data DBs: Apache Druid, HP Vertica

• Experience with building robust, scalable, distributed services; 

• Experience with massively scalable messaging and distributed real-time processing;

• Experience in all aspects of software development including architecture and design, implementation and production support; 

• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps tools and processes; 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• M.S. Computer Science or Engineering or B.S. of related fields;

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have):

• Public Clouds (AWS or GCP)

• Kafka

• Spark

• Hive

• Apache Druid, HP Vertica

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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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