Senior Engineer, Software Applications Development - Req #11144

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day. In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you. How Big Can You Think? Senior Software Engineer – Monetization Serving Systems Are you passionate about building and designing scalable, high performance software systems? Do you enjoy building systems that deliver tangible business goals? Are your communication skills, both written and verbal something you are really proud of? Are you experienced with n-tier systems and do you love solving distributed problems? The Yahoo Web Search monetization team (the ad serving team) is looking for one such experienced and motivated senior software engineer. You will be working to scale the existing search monetization serving systems and solving several performance, design, and architecture problems working closely with other teams. The monetization serving system consists of several robust, high performance applications running on multi-node UNIX clusters. We process millions of queries per day. It is a complex system that provides opportunities for innovation and problem solving! Developing for this infrastructure presents many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, multi-terabyte storage systems, and high-performance computing. It calls for the application of knowledge of software design principles, systems programming, algorithms, data structures, and C++. The focus is on building and enhancing scalable systems and modular software; measurement, optimization, the tuning of system performance and ensuring that the software will run reliably and is fault-tolerant in a 24/7 production environment The candidate should be able to scope and define undefined problems using intuition, common sense, relevant data, strong academic knowledge of Computer Science (algorithms, data structures, etc), and software development experience. Requirements: * B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field and strong academic knowledge of Computer Science (especially algorithms and data structures). * Familiarity with Linux system calls. Multi-process, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable. * Participated in the full life cycle of a large project: design, implementation, testing, releasing and sustaining. * 5+ years of software development experience and the ability to design and implement subsystems with minimal supervision * Proficiency in C++ and the Bash shell * Solid object-oriented programming experience * Experience w/ Perl, make, doxygen, valgrind, the Boost libraries and unit testing helpful * Proficiency in Linux tools and utilities and a Linux editor Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com