Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems. If you want to help drive solutions for complex software problems on systems like these, we are looking for you.
Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineering managers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to lead teams that develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage, low-latency data retrieval, and data analytic systems.
We are looking for experienced software engineering managers to lead teams that analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.
Everyone on staff at our Champaign location share these characteristics:
A degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering pursuit. All of our engineers and managers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates
Strong knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
Solid written and verbal communication skills
Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills
Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world
At the Champaign site we are looking for technically capable experienced managers who have industry experience leading and managing teams of 8 to 15 engineers with a history of delivering software products that
are within resource constraints (schedule, budget, staff)
are of high quality
meet specified functional requirements
are data-oriented (database, data analysis, data communication, etc.)
use Unix or Linux systems
We are also looking for managerial experience with
building teams
managing personnel issues
giving feedback
mentoring
managing production issues
If this describes you, then we have a career for you at our place. Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.
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