Ever wondered what it takes to build a searchable database out of the wondrous
World Wide Web? Does it excite you to write software that will manage a
five-figure number of machines? Do you believe your software should do the
actual work while you spend your valuable time brainstorming a new software idea
at the snooker table?
We, in the Yahoo! Search Technology Content Operations team, do what it takes to
keep the underlying systems running better and faster in order to keep Yahoo!'s
view of the WWW up-to-date, relevant and fast. If it means seeing a method to
the madness of random disks failing across a very large cluster of machines, so
be it. If it means, we as the gate keepers of the whole setup, have to automate
testing the content building software to meet operating criteria, so be it.
About our team: Our team deploys and ensures smooth running of the Search
Database content generation systems. "Ensuring smooth running" is a big task by
itself and that involves writing a lot of software tools.
Given the large scale of our setup, traditional problem solving techniques need
to be approached from a new set of angles simultaneously. To give you an
example, a tiny cluster (of a few dozen machines) wouldn't be affected by
failing hard-drives because probability of disks failing on a given machine is
low. However, put thousands of machines into the picture and we now have one of
these improbable events happening pretty frequently! We have about a dozen disks
failing every day and so it definitely pays to find out the causes on a
continuous basis.
Now, we need a few more passionate people who not only have a zeal for operating
large scale systems but also have Automation in their blood. Want to join us?
You should have solid software operations skills with the drive to fix issues as
they arise and the knack to identify needed tools and build those tools
too. Your duties will be focused on:
* Working with the rest of the team in knocking off ad-hoc maintenance tasks
* Having and using the wisdom to take a step back and ask "How can we avoid
doing these repetitive maintenance tasks?"
* Contributing independently to build tools that keep the search content
building systems up and running
* Communicating by ways of documenting and mentoring in an open-source-like
Development Environment.
Needed Qualifications:
* Proficiency in Perl, Shell Scripting
* Very good knowledge of building web-based dashboards (CGI-Perl, PHP, etc.,)
* Strong understanding of Unix systems and tools
* 3+ years of experience developing Unix tools (in Perl / Shell)
* Strong commitment to jump in and fix issues as they arise
* Decent understanding of Networking concepts
* Excellent trouble-shooting skills
* Excellent Written and Oral skills
* A BE/BS in CS/EE or Equivalent
Good-to-Have:
* Exposure to working on Large scale computing environments and Internet
platforms
* Exposure to Hadoop
* Exposure to AJAX and related Web 2.0 frameworks (YUI, Catalyst, etc.,.)
How to reach us?
1) Please rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 on the following:
a) Java
b) C/C++
c) Perl
d) Python
e) HTML, CSS
f) Javascript, AJAX
g) Networking Concepts (*NOT* cabling, configuring routers, etc.,.)
h) Data Structures and Algorithms
i) Shell Scripting
j) Setting up / Maintaining Apache / MySQL
k) SQL
l) Unix / Linux administrative abilities
m) Exposure to dot-com practices and concepts (Logs collection,
aggregation, monitoring, metrics, load balancing, etc.,.)
n) Hadoop / Map Reduce
2) Make a valid JSON hash string containing your self-assessment on
the above 14 areas with the alphabetic index (a, b, c, ... n) as the
key and your rating as the value
Here is an example. For rating yourself 8 on Perl and 7 on
Java you'd include {"c": 8, "a": 7}. You can leave out areas that you
don't want to rate yourself on.
3) Attach your resume in DOC / HTML / TXT / PDF format along with your
mail. Please DO NOT place any other text in your mail. (rfc822
compatible Signature beginning with a '--' on a newline is okay)
4) Send your mail to sunson+yst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
Thanks for reading through!
-Suraj
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