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Sr Mgr, Data Engineering & Science Development
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
Title: Data Engineering Manager
Location: California-Sunnyvale
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! aspires to be an indispensable guide to digital information, yours and the world’s. 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.
Job Overview
The Video and Display Advertising Business is responsible for delivering market-leading advertising technologies, platforms, solutions, and services for online video and display advertising. Our advertising products deliver billions of ad impressions to hundreds of millions of users everyday, enabling hundreds of thousands of advertisers to effectively connect with the right audience at the right time across devices and across the globe.
We are seeking a senior manager who has good combination of technical and management skills. This candidate should have skills to design and develop large-scale analytic infrastructures, tools, and applications that enable data scientists to mine the massive amount of data at Yahoo and develop and deploy innovative algorithms that automate and optimize critical decisions in the end-to-end online advertising process and also have prior experience to build winning teams, mentor engineers, interface with customers, hiring and retaining top talent. This position will be partnering closely with the advertising data science team on a variety of online advertising problems such as advertising trust and safety, programmatic campaign optimization, and marketplace yield management. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with big data technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Pig, and should also have a passion for applying machine learning approaches to solve large-scale business problems.
Job Responsibilities:
• Lead , hire, mentor high quality data engineers. Have prior 3+ years engineering management experience
• Architect, design, develop, and maintain data processing infrastructure, tools, and applications that enable data scientists and data analysts to efficiently analyze the big data at Yahoo and conduct research and development of data science algorithms
• Develop and support analytic data pipelines that implement and scale machine learning algorithms and other analytic solutions in production
• Work with other engineering teams to integrate data science solutions with ad serving products and other data systems
• Conduct research on the high-performance big data tools and technologies and be a thought leader in scalable machine learning and analytic platform capabilities
Minimum Requirements:
• BS / MS in Computer Science
• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Proficient in at least one compiled/object oriented programming language, such as Java or C++
• Solid experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive/Pig, Storm, Spark etc.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms & large distributed systems
• Strong ability to explain complex analytical concepts to non-experts. Work well both independently and with others in a team
Preferred Qualifications:
• Advanced degree in computer science or a related academic field
• Experience with machine learning algorithms.
• Strong ability in reasoning with statistics
• Experience in online advertising