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.
A Little About Us
Our engineering teams are focused on delivering the best products across Search, Mail, Mobile, Homepage, Sports, Daily Fantasy and Finance just to name a few, and we have fun while we do it. Our team structure encourages trust, learning from one another, having fun, and attracting people who are passionate about what they do.
A Lot About You
We are looking for an experienced developer familiar with the modern data stack and native cloud technologies.
Even more significant than having used this specific tech is your desire and willingness to work with these technologies on one of the core teams within the organization.
We are a fun group that's passionate about technology. We are committed to providing outstanding, timely customer support, so you’ll get to know lots of folks from across the organization who happen to be leaders in the Open Source and Big Data communities.
We work well with one another and could use another forward-thinking mind to help round out the team!
Required Experience:
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Knowledge of programming concepts, software architecture, distributed systems, and public cloud environments
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Demonstrable experience as a software developer using backend programming languages (Java, Python, etc)
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Extensive experience working with native cloud technologies (EMR, Glue, Dataproc, Dataflow, )
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A passion for elegant code
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Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
The following skills and experience are considered a plus:
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Experience working within an enterprise-level environment
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Spark
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Flink
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Terraform
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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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What We Do
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
