Data Engineer

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
A little about US
The Mail Intelligence platform is responsible for building the next generation platforms and services enabling Yahoo to deliver deeply personalized content to the hundreds of millions of users wherever they are and whatever mode of consumption they are using.
We (Mail Intelligence platform) process billions of mail messages(data in tune of several petabytes).With the help of cutting edge algorithms we extract information, build knowledge, interconnect information between different sources to deliver a great experience to our users. Building this knowledge provides many challenges in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning techniques, big data processing in order of petabytes. You will build tools and workflows to make it easier to manage and act on this vast information. You will apply your insights on the data to build innovative consumer applications for Yahoo.
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever. Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day.
About You:

• You are a quick learner and intrigued by the design challenges inherent in building highly scalable, complex and reliable software systems.
• You are a self-motivated engineer with experience in building scalable distributed data processing systems handling terabytes of data on the grid.
• You are passionate about the importance that data plays in the knowledge works, particularly data that is extracted from the web and Yahoo mail corpus.
• You take pride in writing excellent quality code and expect nothing less from your peers.
• You have excellent communication skills, write detailed design documents, a champion of automated testing and automated deployments.
• You have experience handling scale seen at companies like Yahoo, Google and Facebook. You are above all a great team player who thrives in a fast paced environment and passionate about delivering results.

Your Day:

• You will research and develop innovative algorithms for information retrieval, processing and ranking.
• You will build, enhance, optimize and deploy tools, workflows, systems to process Yahoo mail data for extraction relevant information.
• You will be responsible for improving information extraction using machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
• You will participate in agile development to add incremental value to the business.
• You will collaborate with Research scientists to build M/L models for classification, extraction and recommendations in automated fashion.

You Must Have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms
• 8+ years experience in software development with Java or C++ or Scala
• Experience in algorithm design and ML/AI
• Familiarity with data mining, text processing and classification algorithms
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and taking initiatives
• Great communication skills, joy in helping people, ability to remain friendly and constructive under stress

You May Have:

• Experience in building scalable distributed data processing systems handling terabytes of data with technologies like hadoop, hbase, pig, oozie to name few.
• Experience with Tensorflow/PyTorch
• Prior experience in Information Retrieval and extractions.
• Familiarity with data mining, text processing and classification algorithms.
• Understanding of statistical methods and exploratory data analysis.

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 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 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
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