Yahoo · 10 months ago
Senior Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$121K/yr - $251K/yr
5+ years expYahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work on data engineering pipelines and next generation Machine Learning- and AI-based data infrastructure, supporting new functionalities on existing platforms and mining data for analytics insights and product features.
Telecom & CommunicationsPublishingSocial MediaAdvertisingEmailInternetNative AdvertisingOnline PortalsSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Improve our existing data infrastructures for machine learning and deep learning using your core expertise
Work with other engineers to implement algorithms and systems in an efficient way
Take end to end ownership of Machine Learning-based distributed data systems - from data pipelines and training, to real time prediction engines
Develop complex queries, very large volume data pipelines, and analytics applications
Develop complex queries and software programs to solve analytics and data mining problems
Interact with data analysts, data scientists, product managers, and software engineers to understand business problems, technical requirements to deliver data solutions
Prototype new metrics or data systems
Lead data investigations to troubleshoot data issues that arise along the data pipelines
Maintenance and improvement of released systems
Engineering consulting on large and complex warehouse data
Qualification
Required
BS with 7+ years of relevant Industry experience/M.S. in Computer Science with 5+ years of relevant Industry experience
Computer Science graduate ideally with specialization in Data Engineering or Machine Learning
Strong fundamentals: algorithms, distributed computing, data structure, database
Fluency with at least one of: Go/Java/Python/C++/Scala/SQL
5+ years of industry experience on very large scale analytics or ML systems development
2+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (BiqQuery, Dataproc, Composer, Dataflow, BigTable, etc.)
2+ years of experience in Hadoop technologies (Map/Reduce, Pig, Hive, HBase, Spark, Kafka, Oozie, etc.)
Experience in data modeling, schema design, ETL, and data analysis
Self-driven, challenge-loving, detail oriented, teamwork spirit, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and manage expectations
Preferred
Experience with machine learning algorithms, NLP, and/or statistical methods a big plus
Experience in any of: machine learning, analytics, data mining, or data mart and warehouse
Experience with Deep Learning platforms (Tensorflow/Keras/Spark MLlib)
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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