Software Dev Engineer II - Backend/Data

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.

A Lot About You:

The Software Dev Engineer II will analyze, program, debug and modify software enhancements and/or new products. Participate in the development of data warehouse designs with our team of Big Data engineers Work in an agile Scrum driven environment to deliver new and innovative products. Duties include designing applications, writing code, developing and testing and debugging and documenting work and results.  Keep up-to-date with relevant technology in order to maintain and improve functionality for authored applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement reusable frameworks, libraries and Java components, product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders

• Ingest data from various structured and unstructured data sources into Hadoop and other distributed Big Data systems

• Support the sustainment and delivery of an automated ETL pipeline and Validate data that is extracted from sources like HDFS, databases, and other repositories using scripts and other automated capabilities, logs, and queries

• Enrich and transform extracted data, as required. Monitor and report the data flow through the ETL process   

• Perform data extractions, data purges, or data fixes in accordance with current internal procedures and policies

• Track development and operational support via user stories and decomposed technical tasks in a provided issue tracking software, including GIT, Maven, and JIRA

• Troubleshooting production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required

• Mentor junior engineers within the team for development

Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• Three years of related industry experience

• Experience in back-end programming, like Java, JS, Python, Node.js and OOAD and ETL Tools

• Experience with one of Database technologies (Ex: Vertica, Oracle, Netezza, MySQL, BigQuery)

• Experience of working with large scale databases

• Knowledge and experience of Unix (Linux) Platforms and Shell Scripting

• Experience in writing Pig Latin scripts, MapReduce jobs, HiveQL etc. 

• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices

• Familiarity with data loading tools like Flume, Sqoop

• Knowledge of workflow/schedulers like Oozie, Airflow

• Analytical and problem solving skills, applied to Big Data domain

• Proven understanding with Hadoop(Dataproc), HBase, Hive, Pig

• Knowledge of Cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure

• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code 

• Expertise in version control tools like GIT

• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts

• Effective analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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 (

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The compensation for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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