Senior Software Development Engineer - Req #13273

Yahoo! Search Marketing is the world leader in Pay-For-Performance search on the Internet. Formerly Overture Services, the company created the market for Pay-For-Performance search by redefining how businesses market online. Yahoo! Search Marketing distributes its editorially reviewed search results to tens of thousands of sites across the Internet, making it the largest Pay-For-Performance search and advertising network on the Internet. Senior Software Engineer Burbank, CA Are you good at programming? Really good at programming? Do you have a knack for figuring out tough, challenging problems? How about coding a product that receives over 1000 queries per second? Yahoo! Search Marketing is looking for someone like you! We need a programmer who is bright, seasoned, and enthusiastic about working on one of Yahoo!'s most profitable products with a team of very talented programmers. Development will include algorithm design, clustering technologies, internationalization (i18n), and lastly, but most importantly, performance tuning. Innovative system design and architecture along with relevance and coverage optimizations will build the most highly scaleable, performing, and available Domain Match system to date. Y! Search Marketing offers a fast-paced, high excitement, creative, yet casual and comfortable working atmosphere. You'll be surrounded by others like yourself who are not only here to make a buck, but to contribute to one of the fastest growing internet companies in the world. Basic Requirements include the following: *Demonstrated experience with level design and architecture *Demonstrated experience with data management and RDBMS *Proven experience with Linux/UNIX *Applied network programming skills (protocols - TCP, UDP, Multicast, sockets) *Strong knowledge of high transaction, high availability systems *Proven programming skills in C/C++, Perl *Strong database knowledge in MySQL, Oracle *Strong written and verbal communication skills Preferred Requirements: *Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field; Master's preferred. *Strong ethic in product and feature documentation *Strong background in regression, functional, and unit testing Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com