Software Engr Open Content Platform Unix C++
Description
Technical Yahoo! - Open Content Platform (RSS)
Open Content Platform is a highly distributed, high availability platform used by many Yahoo properties including My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! News to enable their users discover, personalize, and consume news, blog, and multimedia RSS content from other Yahoo properties and from around the Net. This position will be focused on improving the scalability of the platform as its usage, functionality, and the amount of content in it grow significantly.
We're looking for a great, thorough software developer with a significant experience building distributed web applications with high requirements for storage. Solid (DBA-level) knowledge of RDBMS and experience with search engines are very desirable. This is a very challenging job that requires a self-motivated individual, capable of working well in a high-paced environment, possessing good communications and organizational skills to coordinate well with other engineers and product managers. This position has a requirement of sharing the pager duty for OCP.
Requirements:
- Building scalable, fault-tolerant web applications, prior experience with distributed systems a plus.
- Passion for technical elegance, quality, simplicity, and automation
- Excellent object-oriented design and skills proven in prior projects
- Excellent problem solving and communications skills
- Expert-level knowledge of Unix, Apache, C/C++, XML, HTTP
- DBA-level knowledge of at least 1 RDBMS especially in the areas of performance tuning, partitioning techniques, geographically-distributed deployments
- Understanding of system performance issues - i/o, threading, inter-process communications, networking
Preferreed Qualifications:
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience of software development
- Highly desirable skills: Perl, shell scripting, experience with search engines
Yahoo! Inc is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit
http://careers.yahoo.com
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