JAVA,LAMP Opportunities with Yahoo! R&D

Folks,

We have exciting career opportunities with Yahoo! R&D, Bangalore for the WebSearch Group for Tech Leads, Principal Engineers & Architects.

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

In the Yahoo Search Technology team, we build scalable systems to discover, archive, analyze and index billions of documents accessible on the Web. With the help of cutting edge scoring algorithms and an extremely high performance run time querying system capable of serving millions of queries a day, we positively affect the lives of people every day. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed/grid computing, peta-byte scale storage systems, high-performance and high availability computing.

We are looking for a Tech Leads, Principal Engineers, Architects to join the YST Vertex team. Vertex is a next generation search product which does the semantic extraction from web and uses the information to present rich and enriched results to the search user. Sounds interesting ? Vertex is a complex system with UI for editors who annotate interesting pages and complex algorithms creating rules for extraction, back end for applying these rules, systems to validate and monitor the rules. Bring in the web-scale and the challenges become even more interesting. Vertex is a key component of the search differentiation layer of the Yahoo! web search .The road map for Vertex in future is to evolve into a Unified Extraction Framework that would supply rich information from webs by running parallel processes on the grid. This would enable us towards becoming a key content provider for WOO (Web Of Objects) initiative as well.
Yahoo Web Search, is passionate about building the world's best search engine! Search is one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet. It is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. We're looking for world-class talent to join our team. If you have a desire to be part of building the best and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to us.

Job Description - Tech Lead
• Responsibilities:
o Responsible for design, implementation/development unit testing of a module
o Participate in trouble shooting various problems in the system

• Minimum Job Qualifications
o Proficiency in Java, Database design, web technologies
o Solid understanding of data structure and algorithms
o Strong problem solving and analytical skills
o Good understanding of large scale systems
o BS/MS Computer Science (or equivalent), 5+ years industry experience

• Preferred Job Qualifications
o Development on LAMP tech stack

Job Description - Principal Engineer
• Responsibilities:
o Responsible for design, implementation/development and unit testing of various modules – a complete hands-on
o Participate in trouble shooting various problems in the system
o Participate in design discussion and reviews

• Minimum Job Qualifications
o Proficiency in Java, Database design, web technologies
o Solid understanding of data structure and algorithms
o Strong problem solving and analytical skills
o Good understanding of large scale systems
o BS/MS Computer Science (or equivalent), 8+ years industry experience

• Preferred Job Qualifications
o Development on LAMP tech stack

Job Description – Architects
• Responsibilities:
o Responsible for designing/architect-ing/implementation various modules
o Interacting with stake holders/customers to understand requirements
o Brainstorming and coming up with ideas/features/technology that would drive the product to next level
o Participate in trouble shooting various problems in the system
o Participate in code review

• Minimum Job Qualifications
o Proficiency in Java, Database design, web technologies
o Solid understanding of data structure and algorithms
o Strong problem solving and analytical skills
o Understanding of large scale systems
o Has proven record of design/architect-ing at least one system
o BS/MS Computer Science (or equivalent), 12+ years industry experience

• Preferred Job Qualifications
Development on LAMP tech stack

If interested, kindly share your resumes to sdcruz@yahoo-inc.com

Regards
Sunil D'Cruz Harry