About the job
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they lovefrom finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and newswith the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
About the Team:
Verizon Media is looking for engineers to join the Verizon Media Hadoop team in Sunnyvale, CA. Verizon Media/Yahoo is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundred nodes, to over 30,000 in the past few years. We have over 400,000 cores that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 20 clusters running a mix of Hadoop, Storm, and Spark.
About the Role:
We are looking for motivated operations engineers to help build and enhance solutions to ensure the availability & reliability of the systems managed. If you are interested in distributed systems, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you! If you want to learn about Hadoop this is the job for you.
Responsibilities:
Work on a combination of tasks & projects such as analyzing and assisting in the resolution of production software/infrastructure issues and instrumenting reporting, deployment tooling, and monitoring solutions to increase operability of our larger scale infrastructure
Understand all aspects of Verizon Media’s Big Data Stack and learn select components in detail
Work closely with engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting-edge solutions that allow Verizon Media to answer today’s most challenging big data questions
Document processes, systems, and their associated configurations
Qualifications:
BS/MS in Computer Science degree or equivalent
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong, methodical troubleshooting skills.
Interest in a technical role involving platform and infrastructure operation and management.
A desire to learn and perform individual research to improve technical proficiency.
The ability to use an object oriented programming language like Java or C++ & scripting languages like Python or Perl
Strong understanding of Linux systems – System administration experience is a plus, whether thats from course work, time spent as a systems administrator for your campus computer lab, side projects.
Demonstrated skills in problem diagnosis and resolution as well as troubleshooting techniques of basic issues
Knowledgeable of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture
Able to understand network protocols at a basic level
Experienced with systems programming concepts like C, sockets, virtual memory, and the process life cycle
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
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