Software Dev Engineer II (Data) at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Reston, Virginia

Job Description:

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 Little About Us:

Yahoo's Marketing Enablement team vision is to engage consumers with personalized, relevant and timely experiences that improve engagement with Yahoo core offerings and adoption of paid offerings. Empower marketers to create and optimize campaigns with velocity and autonomy, enabled by robust segmentation capabilities and cross channel performance reporting. We provide user activity data, user segments and profiles to the downstream systems for campaign targeting and optimization in both realtime and batch modes at Yahoo scale. This is all to create the most relevant end-to-end experiences and offers for consumers across the ecosystem and partner ad platforms, while driving the most value/yield for the business. An increase in engagement through personalization, right offer/content at the right time, and great consumer experience should drive lift in all of our goals including user engagement & acquisition, subscription numbers and revenue.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and launch efficient & reliable data pipelines to move and transform data at scale.


• Build real time data ingestion pipelines that are capable of processing 100s of thousands of events per second.


• Interact with data analysts, product owners/managers and other engineers to understand business problems, technical requirements to deliver data solutions..


• Deliver data with highest quality through rigorous checks.


• Have excellent data modeling skills to understand the nuances of various dimension and metric types in the warehouse.


• Design workflows to ingest, load, present and publish new data sets for various use cases.


• Lead data investigations to troubleshoot data issues and drive resolution.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience


• 4+ years of Java and/or Python development experience


• 3+ years experience in ETL design using Big Data stack environments (Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Oozie, Apache Beam, Airflow, etc.), implementation and maintenance.


• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataproc, Composer, Dataflow, GCS, etc.)


• Experience or familiarity with real time processing tools : Kafka, PubSub, Storm, Spark streaming.


• Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling..


• Comfortable at writing complex sql queries.

• Strong data mindset with a deep appreciation for analyzing data to identify product gaps and enhancements to improve and maintain data quality.


• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Takes initiative and is a team player.

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 ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call +1.866.772.3182 . Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.