Company Name:
Category:
Data/Analytics
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
resume-champaign-data@verizonmedia.com
Description:
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in? As Verizon’s media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we’re transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
At Verizon Media's Champaign, IL office we are currently looking for talented and motivated experienced Engineers to join us.
A Little About Us
Verizon Media's Advertising & Data Systems team is responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for Verizon Media's advertising businesses. We are developing innovative techniques to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges.
Your Day
- Leading technical projects for our team
- Analyzing ways to Increase performance of our systems, automating processes, forecasting loading, designing and implementing tools for large data set issue analysis and verification.
- Production support: troubleshoot, report, and prioritize operational issues with multiple Big Data production pipelines
- Performance Engineering: Driving projects for systems to be more efficient with resources, Investigating and comparing Big Data infrastructural changes for improved performance and data throughput
- Big Data Design Engineering: Work closely with Feature development teams to create highly reliable data applications
- Automation Engineering: Improve and promote application scalability and standardization through automation, statistics and machine learning
- Analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.
- Work to ensure data security and data protection are maintained
- Act as a liaison between the different tiered support teams for operability/site-up issue escalation and monitoring
We are looking for a candidate with these skills:
- A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from your achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.
- Proficient in object oriented programming languages like Java, Python
- Familiar with Linux
- Familiar with Chef
- Familiarity with large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems
- Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
- Excellent team working capability
- Knowledge of security and data protection concepts
- Prior experience in technical operations and software development.
- Experience with building system and application level monitoring tools
- Experience with Hadoop, Storm
- Experience with monitoring applications like Nagios/Netcool/Moog
- Take the lead role for technical projects
- Past history of paper acceptance to technical conferences is a plus
- The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world
Verizon Media 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. Verizon Media is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. Please let us know if you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or participate in the application process.
To apply, please send your resume to resume-champaign-data@verizonmedia.com.