Data Engineering Intern

A Little About Us

Yahoo brands comprise some of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and efficient software systems. If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

About the Team

Yahoo's Data and Analytics team is responsible for providing fast, clean, reliable, and relevant data for Yahoo's Media businesses as well as key measurements and insights about Yahoo users. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable data platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges.

A Lot About You

We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineering students to help us develop high speed data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval, reporting, and analytical systems.

We are looking for students who want to gain experience by helping us to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

Your Day:

• Working through documents and conversations with colleagues to understand product requirements for new features

• Shaping those requirements into design documents and software implementation

• Design, develop, code and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products

• Participate in agile development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems

• Recommend modifications to processes and procedures, and contribute to best practices, design, and implementations

• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams

• Testing and debugging both your own software and some written by others

• Analyzing and refactoring existing software to enhance its reliability, performance, supportability, and operability

• Playing with your friends in some of our local games and contests, from trivia to table tennis, puzzle building, escape rooms and more.

• Helping your team figure out priorities and processes and what's next

You Must Have

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from your ongoing pursuit of a degree in CS or a similar engineering program.

• The ability to use an object-oriented programming language like Java or C++, scripting languages like Python or Perl, and Unix or Linux systems.

• Excellent design, coding, debugging and testing skills

• The expertise to manipulate data through query languages

• Facility with data concepts such as joins, aggregation, projection, and explosion

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and organizational skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• Willingness to engage productively with others in the industry through the mechanisms of open source software

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

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 () 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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion () page to learn more.

US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.

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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