Jobs

Each day Yahoo! collects approximately ten terabytes of data- more than the entire Library of Congress. We analyze this data and act on it to constantly better our user experience, while building the world’s best consumer-centric data platform.

Strategic Data Solutions (SDS) is looking for outstanding individuals for a variety of positions. SDS’ mission is to create value to consumers and marketers by delivering a consumer-centric data platform and insights services that maximize user engagement and enable innovative marketing solutions.

The Advanced Metrics group is responsible for the development of mission critical systems to compute highly complex and data intensive metrics. Challenges include designing high-performance, multi-parallel algorithms, building failure-resistant implementations that can scale to handle many terabytes of data, and meeting the requirements of various Yahoo! Businesses. This team works closely with business intelligence, data warehousing and data mining teams to tackle some of the toughest problems in this area.

Essential Job Functions

• Prototype and design different components.
• Write detailed technical design of the system.
• Develop extensible, scalable, reliable software.
• Interact with other teams to define interfaces and understand dependencies
• Understand and affect the product direction.

Technical Skills Needed

• Familiarity and experience in different phases of software development life cycle.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and UNIX.
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming.

• BS/MS in Computer Science.

• Solid & effective communication skills.
• Experience in Perl, Schema design and PL/SQL will be plus.

Please send resumes with req# *0155 to Tina Duccini, tduccini@yahoo-inc.com