Software System Engineer

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.

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of millions. Whether you’re looking to write UI code, to build the servers behind our massive cloud tech stacks, or to 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?

Yahoo Taiwan provides B2C, C2C e-commerce business process transactions, analytics, and optimizations to power the Yahoo E-Commerce business. We encourage new ideas and continuously experiment and evaluate new technologies to assimilate them into our infrastructure. We develop high-quality products and tools that provide our customers and partners with a focus on usability, efficiency, and depth of business growth.

We are looking for talented individuals who are passionate about building the most advanced online commerce platform. Come join us to work on the cutting edge technology to deliver the state-of-the-art platform with the top talents around global.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and development of end-to-end features in current and future products within domain of expertise

• Plan, design, develop, code and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products; revise and refine as required

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

• Maintain existing products, assisting in the maintenance of domains outside of main area of expertise

• Continually learning new skills and being self-development

Expected Qualification

• Knowing algorithm and data structures for text search indexing and ranking

• Have experiences in building and maintaining open source search engine solutions, e.q. VESPA.ai , Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, OpenSearch etc.

• Hands-on operating applications on Kubernetes(k8s) environment, e.g. auto-scaling, storage plan, recovery, BCP plan

• Experience on development on Linux based systems, command line and scripting 

• Good knowledge of Internet application development and architecture, ex: HTTP, Networking, Information Security, and Web industry standard

• Communicative proficiency in Mandarin and English 

Preferable Qualification

• With AWS EKS or GCP GKE related cloud experience

• Experience on working with large scale distributed systems and container tech

• Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning in the server-side system

• Good knowledge to improve efficiency of DevOps (CI/CD), including unit & functional automation testing

• Good knowledge on cyber security, including authentication & authorization

• Great sense of responsibility and attention to detail

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 (

) or call . 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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