Solutions Engineer, Data Operations

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?

Summary

The Solutions Engineering team is a part of Yahoo Ads Data Product group. We enable Sales and Operations usage of data -- Yahoo and third party -- to maximize revenue and performance for audience and offline measurement campaigns.  We partner with key internal stakeholders to provide valuable insights and connect them with data to drive the business strategy and ultimately grow revenue. We set out to understand our audience, what they want and how we can shape our products to ensure we’re delivering the best user experience possible. Our dedication and curiosity for business and user insight allows us to influence decisions across the business.

 

This role will aid the sales and product teams to drive revenue through audience targeting and measurement to maximize business and performance across our products. This person will play a key role in Data Partner integration work, not only working on API integrations but managing our third party data partnerships.  Your technical skills, creativity, and ingenuity will be on the front lines of our offering and will directly impact the success of our business.

As a Solutions Engineer, you should have a passion for technology, problem solving, and superior client service.  You should be able to demonstrate experience successfully working on complex platforms spanning many technologies, providing product expertise for internal teams, working with key clients, and the ability to efficiently handle varied tasks.

Responsibilities

As a Solutions Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert on Yahoo’s data platform.  Your technical skills will come into play in many different ways, from helping partners integrate to our APIs, troubleshooting platform behavior and issues, supporting the successful rollout of new features, and extracting and analyzing data from a number of sources.

You are a dynamic, strategic, and data-driven professional who can dive in and immediately add value. Your professional demeanor and highly developed interpersonal and communication skills make you an expert in building relationships with external partners and driving cross-functional cooperation with internal teams. You can manage multiple complex projects – whether they call for organizational skills, statistical analysis, or business acumen – and you’re always ready to hit the ground running.

• Assist with API integration work with Data Providers; CDPs, DMPs and Advertisers direct

• Quickly develop & maintain expertise on internal tools and processes within the DMP advertising technology ecosystem

• Manage and refine data within the taxonomy - identifying and correct any gaps and collisions

• Seamlessly integrate new and evolving content into the current taxonomy for use both in US and international markets

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on first and third party audience targeting demand

• Work closely with product team and provide recommendations on feature enhancements

• Be a key member of the Solutions Engineering team, impacting Yahoo’s short and long-term revenue by supporting custom data needs for targeting and measurement related products

• Document relationships between third party and Yahoo, special requirements and/or processes, keep informative documentation on integrations up to date.

• Liaise between Sales, Product and Operations and Third-Party Partners to coordinate deliverables

• Responsible for communication with Yahoo! Sales Team, and Third-Party Partners

• Manage complex and/or cross-functional projects and apply your skills in a data-driven environment

• Ongoing monitoring of custom and third party Data; troubleshooting, including escalation of any problems that might occur. Working with stakeholders and partners to ingest new data, resolve issues 

• Write code to solve problems or automate tasks for internal teams, typically via a scripting language like Python.

• Run advanced SQL queries to gain insights on the platform from various data sources

• Working hours aligned with the United States time zone.

Qualifications

•  Degree in Computer Science or a related field + 10 years of experience

• 8+ years experience within the digital advertising ecosystem, and familiarity with data management and online ad serving platforms

• Very Experienced supporting various web APIs and similar interfaces between multiple technologies, and an ability to troubleshoot all aspects of these flows.

• Ability to write complex SQL queries, and comfort expanding to other SQL-like query languages, on very large data sets.

• Strong skills with linux/unix tools, specifically related to command line utilities, scripting, and raw log file analysis

• Strong skills parsing data of various formats (JSON, CSV, Parque, Avro, ORC, text, and general application logs)

• The ability to write, read, and troubleshoot code.  Strong skills in both a development language (ideally Java) and a scripting language (ideally Python).

• Expertise at automating tasks, specifically with the goal of simplifying complex tasks

• Experience with real-time application monitoring software such as Splunk or Datadog

• Experience using git for source control, creating and reviewing pull requests, and navigating/searching code.

• The drive and ability to pick up new technologies as needed

• Great written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to work with product and development teams as well as clients

 

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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