Position: Experimentation and Partner Solutions Engineer, Yahoo! Sponsored Search
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.
Are you passionate about building and designing scalable, distributed, high performance, revenue generating software systems? Do you have an understanding of business perspective and enjoy building systems that deliver tangible business goals? Do you enjoy sifting through and analyzing reams of data and optimizing for those goals? Are your communication skills, both written and verbal something you are proud of? Is working with driven and passionate folks at one of the most trafficked destinations in the world, your dream? Have you thought about making history while playing pool and foosball with your colleagues? Do you enjoy working in teams?
Yahoo! Sponsored Search is one of the biggest search marketing programs on the internet. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through search. The sponsored search advertiser and user experience is driven and accomplished through complex platforms, with ever growing interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team!
Join a growing and exciting team focused on improving Yahoo! Search’s Sponsored Search Advertising results. Positions are in Santa Clara, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The Experimentation and Partner Solutions team runs a permanent beta near-realtime high-performance serving cluster to return text advertisements to search partners based on user queries and context. Working intimately with a large team of world class scientists and engineers we run 20+ control/treatment experiments a week to optimize revenue, user experience and advertiser experience on a network of hundreds of search partners and 30+ countries. Active areas of development involve ad matching/selection, ranking and page placement. Back end datasets and data mining activities are built on top of Hadoop based grid infrastructure.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and analyze live beta experiments on Sponsored Search partners.
- Work intimately with our world class science team. Bridge the gap from sciences to engineering and master both.
- Design and build prototypes, APIs and solutions to support science team and experimentation needs.
- Work with the search testing team to define and interpret tests of relevance and monetization.
- Become an expert on existing search and cost-per-click architecture, code base, data and organization.
- Master and apply our existing matching, ranking, and page placement technologies for sponsored search.
- Build serving and back-end applications to do all the above and scale to billions of queries a day and petabytes of data.
- Rotate into a build, integration, test and launch function for experimental code.
- Mentor junior engineers and drive implementation and software design.
Minimum Job Qualifications
- Passionate about Search and the Internet
- Strong Software Engineering skills with C/C++, Perl, Python and Linux would be ideal
- Solid statistical knowledge and intuition
- In love with problem solving, coding, architecture, experimentation and research
- Serious team player
Preferable Job Qualifications
- CS Bachelor’s or Master’s
- 5 years+ of experience
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com
