Job Description : Tech Lead
Job Number: 1247784
Primary 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 Systems Engineering and Development :
The Systems Engineering and Development group at Yahoo! builds the solutions and systems that provide the foundation for Yahoo global production data center, global operations and platform engineering. You will be designing and building world-class systems,
many from scratch, that build, operate, manage, monitor and analyze one of the world's largest deployment of data centers and networks for the world's largest provider of internet content. Our number one job is ''SiteUp'', keeping Yahoo! available and operating on a 24x7 basis. Your solutions will be required to operate at a size and scale unmatched in the industry, and will require solving large-scale, high-distributed system issues. Recent projects include automations of installation tasks, analyzing network traffic flows, developing network ACL management systems, building performance engineering systems for server hardware, and other advanced operating systems. If you like working on solutions that have never been attempted before, this is the group for you.
Key Activities and Responsibilities :
The position is a Software Engineer for our Systems Development Team. You would be working on architecture, design, development and testing for our systems that support the Systems Installation, Administration and Configuration systems.
Minimum Job Qualifications :
- Solid foundation in computer science essence fundamentals, including data structures, programming languages, algorithms, software engineering, database theory, and operating systems.
- Advanced skills for software design and development using PHP, C/C++, and Perl.
- Demonstrated experience with object oriented software design and development (in PHP/C++/Java).
- Strong knowledge of SQL, database schema design and at least one database environment (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)
- Strong knowledge of Unix scripting languages (Bash/Perl/Python).
- Good knowledge of software engineering life cycle process including design, development, build/release and QA.
- Knowledge of high availability systems, memory management, I/O performance optimization, threads.
- Demonstrated experience with source code control procedures and environments (cvs, subversion, perforce).
- Good knowledge of Internet Application architectures and Protocols ( TCP/IP, HTTP, etc. ).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and desire to learn new skills.
- Ability to self-manage and prioritize work programs.
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