Position: Director, Service Engineering
Location: Beijing, China.
Responsibilities include:
• Build and maintain a high-performanceoperational team, accepting nothing short of excellence in managing the day-to-day responsibilities of the organization.
• Attract and hire critical top-performing talent into the team
• Rapidly develop a deep knowledge of the Yahoo! Regional Products and Technologies anddevelop a close working relationship with the Product development team and other teams who you support and rely on.
• Represent the team in cross-functionalmanagement forums regarding technical, product and incident topics. Requires a working “hands-on” technical understanding of the systems, products, architectures and issues involved.
• Determine where to allocate service engineering resources across the myriad of opportunities to deliver maximum impact on site availability, performance, maintainability and cost.
• Work with manager counterparts in the US to establish processes to make the sharing of joint-efforts more efficient and productive.
• Be an advocate for the operability of theproduct and support customer needs by working with Product Management and Engineering.
• Provide thought leadership to your team, in both management and technical aspects
• Some travel will be required.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field is required. Master degree and/or MBA is highly desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years in leadership positions managing highly technical teams in support of large mission-critical, highly scalable distributed systems Infrastructure. Experience in the Internet domain is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of attracting, hiring and retaining top-talent.
• Significant hands-on experience withsystems (Linux & Windows)
• Experience with complex software product/service delivery architectures that involve multiple components supporting large high-volume mission-critical consumer-facing Internet environments.
• Strong project management skills with proven ability to manage multipleprojects.
• Though leadership in managing large teams.
• Knowledge of typical global enterprise network configurations and environments
• Track record of strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with people with variety of technical and cultural backgrounds.
• Track record in successfully working with distributed and remote teams.
• Strong problem solver with the ability to influence people and drive results in a matrix organization while building long term positive and collaborative relationships.
• Developing positive relationships with customers.
Title: Release Engineer (Mobile Platform)
Position Summary:
Release management is the definition, support, and enforcement of processes for transferring software to production. We are looking for a senior release engineer to work with the backend platform team to provide release management across the Mobile Platform product line. This position will be responsible for planning, defining and leading a cohesive Mobile Platform software build, packaging, dependency management and deployment strategy uniting the efforts of the Mobile Platform engineering teams with the respective service engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Mobile Platform development, QA, build / release engineer and service engineer teams on design of release management planning, product’s installation, configuration, and deployment processes.
• Create and maintain Mobile Platform software packaging for all environments according to Yahoo Best practices.
• Manage and execute Mobile Platform deployment between all environments including coordination of production releases with operations.
• Create, maintain and manage software deployment automation.
• Responsible for gathering, tracking, supplying and training of all the Yahoo’s build release tools and best practices that are required to develop and build software.
• Backup for software continuous integration and build automation when necessary.
Requirements:
• Bachelor degree in IT, CS, or related technical discipline
• Proven years experience as a Linux/Unix release engineer
• Proven experience developing software build and deployment plan and strategies.
• Has led or initiated a software release or configuration process across multiple environments (Development, QA, Production)
• Knowledge of agile SDLC, software configuration management practices, release management methodologies and production deployment.
• Knowledge of software packing management system such as RPM.
• Expert skills building, packaging and distribution of signed packages written in Java, C++ and Php
• Expert scripting skills such as Perl
• Experiences with Maven and GNU make.
• Expert with at least one source control system such as Subversion, CVS or Perforce
• Experience with continuous integration systems and post build steps.
• Strong leadership skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills also required
Title: Mobile Platform System Engineer
Job Description
Yahoo! has been providing the leading edge in Mobile products and services, and enhancing the day-to-day lives of millions of people worldwide. The Mobile Platforms team builds highly scalable platform services to help Yahoo! build great mobile products. The mobile platforms include Blueprint, a device independent framework for thousands of mobile phones, javascript libraries for the highest-end mobile browsers, gateways and edge servers with the highest scalability requirements, backend services for mobile location detection, video streaming and much more.
Job Qualification
• 3-5 years of software development experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Be passionate for building high-quality products
• Have a strong sense of commitment and responsibility
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience developing and shipping server side software in C++ or Java and PHP
• Familiarity with Linux environments
• MS/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Passion in mobile technologies
• Experience with SMS Gateway and SMPP preferred
Position: Senior Product Manager, Mobile Search & DiscoveryResponsibilities
• Single-point responsibility for bringing products to market and deliver results.
• Identify customer segments and market opportunities, formulate product strategies and long-term roadmaps, analyze detailed requirements and be deeply involved in design and development process.
• Build functional and user experience specs for next generation mobile search and information discovery products.
• Make functional prioritization decisions with limited information. Communicate the product roadmap within the organization and externally for partners and customers.
• Work with user research to understand how users engage with our search products.
• Work with carriers and device manufactures to integrate Yahoo! Search products within their devices.
Personal and Interpersonal Skills:
• Ability to interacting with and influence senior executives with strong product vision.
• Goal-oriented, detail-oriented, ambitious, and strong ability to follow-through on commitments.
• Demonstrates integrity, maturity, and set an example of constructive and positive leadership for the team.
Qualifications
• Combined 8+ years of experience in poduct management/marketing, consumer product design and/or internet software development.
• Experience with a variety of mobile platforms (Webkit, HTML5 technologies, Blackberry iPhone, Android) desired.
• Understanding of how mobile web /app services usage patterns vary across the globe.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at once.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, HCI, or Math desired.
Title: Mobile Platform Quality Engineer
Job Qualification
• Minimum 5+ years of working years in software development or testing
• Domain expertise of WEB services and Mobile browsers (Opera, Openwave, Safari, Nokia)
• Extensive knowledge and experience in QA test methodologies for Web applications
• Experienced with Mobile Web testing with multiple Mobile configurations, Mobile Web browsers
• Hands-on experience in test automation tools (Selenium, DeviceAnyWhere, JMeter, Mechanize)
• Proficient in C++/Java, javascript, PHP, Perl and xml
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Self-starter, team player, infrastructure and process-oriented, strong people and technical leadership
• Effective written & verbal communication skills in English.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Job Title: Project Manager
Job Qualificationa
• 5 years of IT industry experience including 2-3 years in Project and/or Program Management.
• Strong understanding of both SDLC and Agile development (such as Scrum, XP) methodologies.
• Proven track record of bringing in large software projects on time, in budget and with quality.
• Experience in managing projects in an Internet environment and Mobile space a plus.
• Experience in Requirements Management, Customer handling (setting expectations, relationship management, negotiating on issues), Planning, Estimation and Risk Management, Impact Analysis
• Ability to manage ambiguity & lack of clarity (in requirements, scope etc.)
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment, collaborating with multi-site cross-functional teams across multiple time-zones. Must work closely with engineering, product management, and customers (both internal and external)
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate issues, and drive discussions.
• A team player and relationship builder
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
Job Title: Project Manager -- APPS
Job Qualification
• 5+ years of IT industry experience including 3+ years in Project and/or Program Management.
• Strong understanding on both SDLC and Agile development (such as Scrum, XP) methodologies.
• Proven track record of bringing in large software projects on time, in budget and with quality.
• Experience in managing projects in an Internet environment and Mobile space a plus.
• Experience in Requirements Management, Customer handling (setting expectations, relationship management, negotiating on issues), Project Planning, Effort Estimation and Risk Management, Impact Analysis, etc..
• Ability to manage ambiguity in requirements, scope etc..
• Ability to work in a matrix environment, collaborate with multi-site cross-functional teams across multiple time-zones.
• Excellent communication skills in English
• A true team player and relationship builder
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
Title: QA Engineer – Advertising Technology
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement test automation framework.
• - Work with development engineers to create home-grown scripts to facilitate ad-hoc testing
• - Design and implement test strategy and test cases.
• - Execute tests using automation framework and validate test results to ensure the product meeting product requirements.
• - Conduct White Box and Grey Box testing.
• - Submit, regress, and verify defects
Minimum Requirements
- 4-5 years experience in Software QA with focus on testing backend server and web applications/ system bases components. No UI or GUI testing.
- 2-3 years of implementing test cases using C++ and PERL/SHELL.
- Hands-on experience with white box and grey box testing, automation testing, and script languages such as Perl/Shell/C++.
- Strong UNIX/LINUX command-line troubleshooting background
- Proficient Test Planning and test case writing and designing.
- Strong written and verbal skills in Chinese and English are required for this position.
Preferred Job Qualifications
• - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Master preferred.
- Experience working with remote development staff and QA teams
- Experience with or knowledge of any QA tools (including: web monitoring, code coverage, memory tools, 3rd party integration)
Title: Senior System Engineer –Targeting
Vacancy: 4 open reqs
Key Responsibilities
- Design high-performance algorithms on map/reduce framework
- Develop reliable, fault-tolerant and scalable systems that can handle terabytes of data
Minimum Requirements
- MS in Comp Science with 5+ years or Ph.D. in Comp Science with 2+ years of industry
- experience
- Excellent understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming in the context of large scale distributed data processing
- Excellent understanding on statistical methods used in data modeling for user interests
- Excellent understanding of machine learning and data mining algorithms
- Good programming and debugging skills on Java and Linux
- Structured thinker, effective communicator
- Familiarity and experience in different phases of software development life cycle
- Adequate oral English communication, precise written communication in Chinese and English.
Preferred Job Qualifications
- Experience working on grid computing using Hadoop and map-reduce framework
- Experience working on systems handling web scale data
- Understanding of ad serving systems
Title: Senior Product Manager - Communications
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with multi-functional teams to elicit, understand, rationalize and prioritize requests for new functionality for our next generation communication products.
Work with other functional areas to gather intelligence on competitive offerings and new industry trends and synthesize competitive findings
Understand Yahoo! core communication products and the related market and competition landscape, define the product roadmap and strategies
Develop and drive product management and planning process for our key communication products
Communicate and evangelize the group’s product strategy to key stakeholders
Explore new business and product opportunities
Minimum Requirements
Experience of generating product concepts that add significant improvements to existing products
In-depth knowledge on real-time consumer communication products and markets
Passion for creating world-class business solutions that enable high-performance online and communication application platforms
Proven ability to work with cross-functional groups and drive decision making
Strong customer orientation and ability to build rapport
Great ability in identifying and seizing key business opportunities and turning such opportunities into reality
8+ years experience in building global products
5+ years product management experiences in online and consumer application platforms
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Chinese and English
Preferred Job Qualifications
MBA or MS in Computer Science or related field
Experiences of living and working in the US, and working experience in an international corporation
