Software Dev Engineer I

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.

Yahoo brands comprise some of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Our integrated approach to sustainable identity starts with Yahoo  ConnectID, our new unified ID solution, powered by a consent-based, first-party data, diverse ID graph and full stack DSP & SSP ad platform.  ConnectID is  a person level ID derived from our expansive Unified ID Graph. This position is to work on the Unified ID Graph. The ID Graph receives multiple internal and external identifiers that are processed in our pipeline to produce a ConnectID that supports our Advertising and Publisher advertising products. As the architecture moves to AWS, this is an exciting opportunity to join a well established team at the center of this innovative product. 

The Identity Team is looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about Big Data, Cloud Technologies, and working on backend infrastructure that powers one of most compelling advertising products, that is driving growth and leader in the Identity advertising space. The Identity team runs on a large Storm cluster which will move to Flink in AWS along with other platforms. This is a chance to join an exciting time in the evolution of the product and the company, with lots of challenges and opportunities to grow as an engineer. 

About You

The Identity  team is looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed computing and big data platforms: Flink, Aerospike, AWS, Machine Learning. The backend engineer will work in our agile environment responding to large-scale data processing needs of Advertising business with the best use of open source technologies, advancing the state of distributed computing and storage. You must demonstrate a go-getter attitude to drive solutions to problems. You must be able to foster teamwork, promote team collaboration and communication, and gauge project progress. 

Your Day 

• Design, develop, code and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Examples vary widely from time series data management to pub-sub messaging to services deployment.

• Analyze and improve scalability, latency, stability and security in the Identity platform. Design and  develop key pieces of Identity’s platform with an emphasis on high velocity, low latency data import pipeline from internal and external sources.

• Participate in agile development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems

• Recommend modifications to processes and procedures, and contribute to best practices, architecture, and implementations

• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams.

• Collaborate with other teams in solving problems

Requirements 

• Passionate about highly-scalable, distributed, large multi-node environments

• High-quality, object oriented software development experience using Java 

• Strong system and application troubleshooting and performance tuning skills (AWS, Storm, Flink, Aerospike, ETL, CI/CD technologies, DataDog or similar monitoring / alerting applications.)

• Knowledge of the core elements of Big Data – Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value, coupled with a strong sense of secure transactions. 

• Excellent communication, problem solving and organizational skills

• Experience in contributing to Apache open source projects is a plus.

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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