Yahoo Holdings - Baltimore, MD
posted 2 months ago
The Senior Software Development Engineer at Yahoo plays a crucial role in analyzing, designing, programming, debugging, and modifying software enhancements and new products. This position involves leading the development of data warehouse designs in collaboration with a team of Big Data engineers. The engineer will work in an agile Scrum-driven environment, focusing on delivering innovative products that meet the needs of the business. Responsibilities include designing applications, writing code, developing and testing software, debugging, and documenting work and results. Staying up-to-date with relevant technology is essential to maintain and improve the functionality of the applications developed. In this role, the engineer will design and implement reusable frameworks, libraries, and Java components, as well as product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders. The position requires ingesting data from various structured and unstructured data sources into Hadoop and other distributed Big Data systems. The engineer will support the sustainment and delivery of an automated ETL pipeline, validate data extracted from sources like HDFS, databases, and other repositories, and enrich and transform extracted data as required. Monitoring and reporting the data flow through the ETL process is also a key responsibility. The Senior Software Development Engineer will perform data extractions, data purges, or data fixes in accordance with internal procedures and policies. Tracking development and operational support via user stories and decomposed technical tasks in issue tracking software, including GIT, Maven, and JIRA, is essential. The engineer will troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and provide solutions as required. Additionally, mentoring junior engineers within the team is an important aspect of this role, fostering growth and development within the engineering team.