Job Title : Principal engineer-Database Engineering (Oracle, PL/SQL)
Job Number : 1249685Primary Location : India-Karnataka-Bangalore
Yahoo! is focused on making the world's daily habits more inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC) and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the company's blog (yodel.yahoo.com).
About Yahoo :
Yahoo! is focused on creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. Yahoo!’s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to the consumers who build their businesses. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
About Analytics and Data Platforms group :
Advertising and Data delivers market-leading industry advertising platforms, solutions, and services, integrated with targeting and creative. The team provides analytics tools and expertise to drive data-driven decision-making across all Yahoo! product and regional teams and focuses on thought leadership for data-driven advertising, industry measurement, and the value of Yahoo! data. Advertising and Data is part of Technology and Operations. Advertising and data is comprised of seven functional areas – Advertiser, Publisher, Marketplace, Consumer product insights, Advertising and Data solutions, Continuous delivery, and Strategic revenue initiatives. The group is organized around the principles of Putting the customer first (by aligning around customers, not platforms), Going faster (by merging teams to simplify accountability with fewer decision makers), and Encouraging teamwork (by moving to an agile model).
About the Role :
The Analytics and Data Platforms group is looking for an energetic and experienced professional who is passionate about building high volume, scalable, reliable and high performance system for data processing. The system must be fast, secure, highly available, customizable and built to scale. This poses very interesting challenges with Grid technologies, storage systems, distributed programming, large-volume system architecture and security. A successful candidate must be passionate about his area of expertise, a fast learner, self-starter, and a skilled problem solver.
Responsibilities :
- Develop software modules as per design and implementation strategy
- Understand related pieces of tools and technology used in Yahoo
- Provide regular update to project leader/manager on project status
Must have skills :
- 2 to 4 years experience in software development, testing and deployment in a production UNIX environment
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Good in Java/C++ and object oriented concepts
- Fair knowledge of working on UNIX systems
- Good in scripting with Perl or Shell
- Good communication, problem solving and team skills.
Nice to have skills :
- Experience with working on Hadoop, Map-Reduce and Grid related technologies
- Experience with relational databases is a plus