Principal Fullstack Developer - Network Automation

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. 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.

A Little About Us:

Yahoo’s Global Network Infrastructure team is responsible for the core Network Infrastructure and shared services required to support all Yahoo services globally, such as our popular Yahoo Front Page, Sports, News, Finance and Weather media channels, advertising engines, video, search, and blogs.

A Lot About You:

Yahoo's Global Network team is looking for a highly technical Principal Full Stack Developer on the network automation team to drive programmability and the innovation of our 100+Tb global network. You will be a critical part of the team to bridge the gap and bring awareness between the network and application stack to increase network intelligence.

Responsibilities:

Work with engineering and architecture to assess critical challenges and identify opportunities to define future automated solutions for workflow optimization inside the Global Network team.Serve as a technical lead on several large scale network automation platforms that support both our data centers and our edge POP locations globallyMentor and train team members on design techniques, and coding standards to help them grow their careers.

Required Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or related professional experience 8+ years programming/software engineering experience in any combination of Perl, Python, Golang, C/C++Experience in developing & debugging software and monitoring large scale distributed platformsKnowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems.Knowledge of of web technologies such as Node.js & DjangoExperience with CI/CD deployment methodology and other common DevOps tools (i.e. Jenkins, Docker, Git)Experience with NoSQL/RDBMS, Message bus and similar big data technologies (Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka)Data analytics, modeling, pipelines, representation, UI and API experienceWorking knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications: (Not Required)

Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Chef/AnsibleExperience with containerization as well as with any of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP, etc)Experience with TCP/IP & WAN/LAN concepts

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.

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.

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Key Skills

• Python
• RDBMS
• Golang