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Storage Architect
Requisition ID 31522
Yahoo! builds media, communications, and advertising products that serve more than half a billion people. Every day, we connect millions of consumers to the people and things that matter to them most. We are looking for top technical talent to help us balance the functionality, reliability, and cost of the systems that drive our global products. This position is a great opportunity to advance the state of the art in Internet technologies, and to learn to design and operate some of the biggest information and communication systems in the world. Architects are senior individual contributors who lead the technical aspects of designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and operating Yahoo!’s products and platforms.
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com
Skills/Requirements:
BS in CS or equivalent industry experience is a must. Typical candidates have a MS in CS or equivalent experience. Ph.D. is desirable.
12+ years of directly related experience; 8+ years of technical leadership experience
Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
Expertise in Internet systems design and implementation (both textbook and war stories)
Demonstrated leadership in technologies that are core to Yahoo!’s products (distributed systems, cloud computing, content management, indexing, database, editorial systems, web services, multi-tier serving architectures, machine learning, business intelligence, data mining, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and communications protocols)
Analytical skills: complexity, capacity, performance, quality, logistics, statistics
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience with object-oriented technologies, including a range of design patterns
Experience with some combination of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP
Experience with Web Technologies (Apache, AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, SOAP, XML)
Understanding of large-scale data processing technologies (SQL, Map/Reduce)
Functions/Responsibilites:
Lead a technical team to design and implement highly reliable, scalable, extensible, maintainable, global, and operable products and platforms.
Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents.
Build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
Provide consulting services within one of Yahoo!’s product divisions and at the corporate level
Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape decisions regarding Yahoo!’s architectural strategy
Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices developed with the organization
Develop division-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant product or organizational pain-points
Participate in a network of architects to share ideas, practices, and experiences
Work closely with product management and development teams to define the next generation of media, communications, advertising, cloud, and data systems
We value architects who do enough hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside the company
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
United States
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Website:
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