Software Engineer

About Yahoo
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M 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.

About the Team
The Consumer Engineering team develops the Content Analysis Platform (CAP). CAP is both a platform and a component of other large-scale infrastructure platforms in multiple Yahoo properties and applications, providing text classification by topic and content quality/risk level, and text extraction such as key phrases and automatic summarization. Development work on CAP has an impact on the quality of a variety of internal systems at Yahoo including the Yahoo Home Page, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search, advertising systems, and others.

Responsibilities
Working on projects of diverse scope and complexity, design, build, implement, modify, test, debug and deploy software systems, large-scale infrastructure platforms, and network services that are the foundation of multiple Yahoo! properties and applications. Responsible for performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security. Services are delivered to applications through standard and proprietary protocols and behavior may be customized via complete APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and/or web services.
Own, improve, and scale content acquisition and data processing workflows which bring tens of millions of web pages to Yahoo each day. Develop richer signals for the core algorithms, models, and recommendation platforms which enable deeper experiences to further engage Yahoo users. Coordinate with internal customer teams to understand future requirements around content and services. Drive the roadmap for the next-generation content pipelines which continually improve operability, scalability, efficiency, performance, and reliability of the workflows and pipeline.

Requirements
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
We are hiring for various levels of experience and in multiple locations, including the potential for full time positions.
Position requires:

• Proficiency in designing, writing, updating, and reviewing reliable and maintainable software in Java and Python.

• Solid understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, Performance analysis, and Software Engineering best practices.

• Experience building large-scale, low-latency online systems.

• Experience with distributed computing environments like Hadoop or Spark.

• Experience with CI/CD tools, production deployments, and cloud environments.

• Computing metrics of impact on aspects of the software such as data quality or performance, and presenting analysis of proposed changes to stakeholder groups.

• Not required, but a plus: Data mining, machine learning, AI, statistics, information retrieval, distributed computing, natural language processing, or linguistic analysis.

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