Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/2304
To subscribe to this list, send mail to jobs-subscribe@no-spam
To unsubscribe, send mail to jobs-unsubscribe@no-spam
Posted: February 23, 2005
Job title:
Senior Software Engineer, Automated Metrics and Process Tools
Company name: Yahoo! Inc.
Location: United States, CA, Sunnyvale
Pay rate: Negotiable
Terms of employment: Salaried employee
Length of employment: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Onsite: yes
Description:
Desired Attributes
Do you refuse to take things for granted, preferring instead to subject
hypotheses and opinions to scientific tests? Do you like figuring out what
the right questions are, and designing the most efficient and comprehensive
ways of generating meaningful answers to them automatically? The Yahoo!
Search Technology group is seeking an experienced software engineer to join
its Automated Metrics and Process Tools team. We’re passionate about
building the best search engine on the planet, and our team brings together
some of the best and brightest minds from across the search industry. Our
product now powers hundreds of millions of queries a day, and the Automated
Metrics and Process Tools team plays a key role in informing decisions
about its direction. As part of the team, you will be responsible for
designing and implementing automated processes for measuring Search Engine
performance. You will work with the Relevance Tools, Analysis, and other
Yahoo! Search Technology teams to help maximize the efficiency of our
development and testing processes. You will play an important part in the
design and building of systems that help improve our ability to measure our
product’s performance and improve the processes behind it.
Essential Responsibilities
Collaborate across Yahoo! Search development groups to help define
meaningful Web Search product metrics and design processes that generate
them automatically and reliably. Apply statistical methods to analyze the
performance of various subsystems behind Web Search. Develop robust
database applications with a strong web-based UI component that tell the
product’s story, summarizing complicated metrics in clear and meaningful
ways. Effectively design, develop, and deploy tools and applications based
on open-source technologies such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP.
Required skills:
Required Knowledge
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of industry experience that includes building tools for
use by development teams.
• Demonstrable expertise in Object Oriented Perl.
• Experience in building web-based tools, using PHP, JavaScript
and/or Perl.
• Experience in building database applications on Unix/Linux
platforms.
• Experience in the design and implementation of automated production
and/or testing systems.
• Outstanding track record of teamwork and excellent communication
skills.
Desired skills:
Extra Credit
• Search Engine/Information Retrieval experience.
• Background in statistics and/or data mining.
• Experience with MySQL.
• Java and/or C/C++ programming experience.
• Experience in user interface design.
• Experience with software internationalization.
URL for more information:
http://careerportal.resumix.com/pljb/yahoo/yahoo_jobs/applicant/jobClick.js
p?count=1&id=1715
Contact information:
Please apply directly to this link:
http://careerportal.resumix.com/pljb/yahoo/yahoo_jobs/applicant/jobClick.js
p?count=1&id=1715 or send your resume via e-mail to careers@no-spam
Use the following subject for your email: ‘Senior Software Engineer: AMPT
(jobs.perl.org) req#RX0400004739’. In your cover letter, please explain
how your background and experience addresses the job requirements and
especially highlight any projects or applications that you developed in
Perl.