Principal Engineer Job in Yahoo

Responsibilities include:
* Design and enhance features in the search engine and applications related to it
* Participate in the design and development of the next-generation platform for search
* Design and develop services which provide the web search data and components for use by other Yahoo applications and external users.
* Drive projects from design to deployment and support

Skills

Experience: 7+ years

Minimum Job Qualifications:
* B.E./B.Tech CS or equivalent required
* 4+ years industry experience with Java.
* 4+ years industry experience with Oracle Database applications. Should have done application programming on top of Oracle databases, and experience in schema design, scripting interfaces to databases.
* Experience with PHP is a bonus.
* Must have a strong knowledge of scripting languages, e.g. Python/Perl/Tcl.
* Ability and experience to technically drive the full life cycle of large projects: design, implementation, testing, shipping and maintenance.
* Strong in algorithms, data structures, networking.
* Experience in building large-scale, complex, reliable systems or applications.
* Strong programming background. Multi-threading, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable.
* Good verbal and written communication. Strong teamwork skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications:
* MS/PhD in CS preferred
* Web-based application development experience, both in server side and front-end programming.

NOTE: This position is based in Bangalore, India

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PPC Job in Yahoo

Job Description:PPC Campaign writing & monitoring
Traffic Analysis & Reporting
Full responsibility for the success of PPC campaigns
On-Page: Keywords Research, Meta Tagging, Content & Code optimization
Off Page: Submission to Directories, Articles, Blogs, PRs

Desired Candidate ProfileIn-depth knowledge of PPC Marketing
Campaign writing & monitoring
Proven track record of managing PPC campaigns with high ROI
Exp. in On-page / Off-page SEO
Must know - Pay per Click, Pay per Action,
Marketing through Price Comparison Engine

Experience Required: 5 - 7 Years

Education Required: UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization,Graduation Not Required PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization,Post Graduation Not Required

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Software Eng Job in Yahoo

Job Description
Technical lead - Frontend engineering

Are you excited about the world of Social and Open Internet platforms?
Do you want to lead a team that delivers best social and open platforms to the key Yahoo! verticals?
Do you enjoy solving challenging technical problems?

Yahoo! Platforms team is looking for an energetic and experienced Frontend Engineer who is passionate about delivering the next generation, scalable, reliable and high performance social and open Internet platforms.

Our Social and open platforms are hosted by platforms teams and used by hundreds of millions of users via our web sites. Some examples of these platforms are blog platform, review and commenting platform and polls platform. A Frontend Engineer would participate in design and development of widgets that incorporate and serve these User Generated Content features and tools that enable administration of these features for vertical products.

A successful candidate must be passionate about his area of expertise, excellent communicator, a fast learner, self-starter and a skilled problem solver. Technical people with an interest in working for Internet based products and platforms are invited to apply.

Responsibilities:
Design and development of frontend widgets and tools for UGC platforms
Contribute to interface design and usability aspects
Work with backend team to resolve dependencies and coordinate deliverables
Coordinate with internal customers to integrate the deliverables into the products

Requirements:
6+ years of software experience
Excellent PHP skills. C++/Java skills are a plus
Very good Javascript/Ajax, CSS, HTML skills
Good communication and coordination skills
OO design skills; SOA skills a plus
Data structures and algorithms knowledge
Good academics
Web/Internet experience is a plus

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Yahoo Job in Bangalore

Yahoo Job in Bangalore

Qualification

B.Tech/BE/MCA/MS

Required Skills / Mandatory skills

· This position requires a dedicated individual who can work well in a team environment.
· The candidate should have a B.S. in Computer Science (or related area of study) and 6-8 years of experience.
· Effective oral and written communication skills are a must.
· Experience with Unix administrative tasks is required.
· The candidate must have demonstrated experience with Unix shell (bash) scripting and Perl.
· The candidate must be able to demonstrate skill in trouble-shooting techniques and problem diagnosis and resolution.

Desired skills

· Exposure to large-scale production environments is a plus.
· Knowledge of developer tools like Bugzilla, CVS, SVN is a plus.
· Knowledge/experience with monitoring tools like Nagios is a big plus.

Role and responsibilities

This position will be part of the Service Engineering team that manages, mantains and supports production systems

o Reponsible for 24x7x365 uptime/availabiltiy of critical systems/applications.
o Utilize strong analytical and problem solving skills to diagnose/resolve system and application issues.
o Drive incident and problem management activities.
o Collaborate with cross-functional organizations (engineering, qa, noc, site operations)
o Document processes, systems, and their associated configurations
o Hardware capacity planning, provisioning and deploying of new resources.
o Participate in change and release management activities
o Participate in a group pager rotation for weekly oncall duties, emergencies and act as 1st level of escalation.
o The above responsibilities will require the need to work independently and make decisions without direct supervision within a dynamic environment.

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Social Media and Web Analytics Job in Yahoo

The CS Sr. Manager – Social Media and Web Analytics primary focus will be specific to providing Customer Advocacy and all corporate shareholders visibility into the current and future state of Yahoo!’s customer population across all self help as well as social media interactions. This position will initially be an individual contributor, but will expand to managing a team of business analysts or contractors dependant on the emerging Social 911 program acceptance and expansion.

Job Responsibilities

· Define and lead Yahoo CA’s Social 911 strategy and program launch to that leverages social media instrumentation that will listen, intercept, and resolve customer issues identified within the social media sphere. Work with Yahoo Customer Care to provide back end support.

· Lead and support the development of web analytics with a goal of improving the global self-service Help platform and achieve related operational objectives

· Oversee and support the creation of web analytics with accountability for improving the customer experience and specific metrics such as churn rate and contact deflection

· Perform proactive/reactive analysis of website traffic and agent delivered support to understand common use patterns, validate designs, and ultimately drive positive change to the end-to-end service delivery process.

· Take responsible for meeting the reporting needs of internal clients, converting requirements into plans, and ensuring there is alignment between the clients reporting objectives and those of the Customer Success and team.

· Create project plans, schedules and other documentation in support of small and large-scale projects and programs.

· Responsible for building out monthly and quarterly executive CA business reviews.

· Document and recommend improvements to processes.

Minimum Job Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related discipline.

· Demonstrated knowledge of best social media practices, emerging trends, and how to build out programs to identify customers in distress and needing rescue.

· 5+ years of managing web analytics and analysis in a software/Internet company

· 3+ years experience with commercial available web analytics tools, such as Omniture or Yahoo Web Analytics

· Demonstrated experience coordinating activities among superiors and peers

· Passion for developing self service and the Internet-based solutions

· Demonstrated record of success in a goal oriented, highly accountable environment

· Intuitive/creative thinker

Preferable Job Qualifications

· Professional and proactive demeanor

· Ability to function equally well independently and as part of a team

· Ability to thrive within a fast paced environment

· Problem identifier and solver

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