Backend Data Engineering Intern
Company: Yahoo!
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: January 21, 2023
Job Description:
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners
with an audience of nearly 900 million. 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 trillions of
data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our
business-and the world. Want in?A Little About UsYahoo brands
comprise some of the premier destinations on the Internet such as
Mail, News, Finance, and Sports websites. This means that we rely
on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and
efficient software systems. If you want to help solve complex
software problems for systems like these, we are looking for
you.Yahoo's Ads Data Platform teams work on some of the biggest
online advertising data sets in the world. We are responsible for
providing fast, clean, and relevant data for Yahoo's advertising
businesses. We are developing next generation technologies to
enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable
data platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges.A Lot
About YouWe're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineering
students to spend a bit of time with our team in Champaign,
Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help us develop
high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large
scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency
retrieval, reporting, and analytical systems.We are looking for
students who want to gain experience by helping us to analyze
requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect,
design, implement and test those solutions; and support our
globally deployed data collection and handling software.You will
spend your days doing things like:
- Working through documents and conversations with colleagues to
understand product requirements for new features
- Shaping those requirements into design documents and software
implementation
- Testing and debugging both your own software and some written
by others
- Analyzing and refactoring existing software to enhance its
reliability, performance, supportability, and operability
- Playing with your friends in some of our local games and
contests, from trivia to table tennis, puzzle building, escape
rooms and more.
- Helping your team figure out priorities and processes and
what's nextYou Must Have
- A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and
algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software
engineering practices from your ongoing pursuit of a degree in CS
or a similar engineering program.
- The ability to use an object-oriented programming language like
Java or C++, scripting languages like Python or Perl, and Unix or
Linux systems.
- Excellent design, coding, debugging and testing skills
- The expertise to manipulate data through query languages
- Facility with data concepts such as joins, aggregation,
projection, and explosion
- The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving and organizational skills
- Great team-working capabilities in an agile development
environment
- Willingness to engage productively with others in the industry
through the mechanisms of open source software
- The passion to build great products, work with great people and
change the worldIf this describes you, then we have an opportunity
for you at our place.Come see what we're doing at Yahoo on the
Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois!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.At
Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed
to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages
authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for
everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their
potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and
inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.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.The compensation for this position
ranges from $45,760.00 - $135,200.00/yr and will vary depending on
factors such as your location, skills and experience. The
compensation package may also include incentive compensation
opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or
commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides
industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan,
company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an
employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.Yahoo
has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and
hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is
one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't
require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance.
If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend)
on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events.
When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.If
you're curious about how this factors into this role, please
discuss with the recruiter.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply
on our internal career site.
Keywords: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale , Backend Data Engineering Intern, Other , Sunnyvale, California
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