Software Engineer - Data Backend Remote - Canada
Software Engineer - Data Backend Remote - Canada
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Summary
Looking for the perfect restaurant to celebrate a friends birthday Need a trusted auto repair shop to fix a broken windshield Yelp helps millions of people find solutions every day by connecting them with great local businesses.
The Ranking Infrastructure team at Yelp plays a critical role in making these connections possible. We design build and maintain core search services that power essential features like search ranking ad delivery and home feed recommendations. Our team is responsible for building and scaling our inhouse search engine NRTSearch advanced machine learning models and for enhancing it with modern capabilities like KNNsearch. We also build the APIs used to recall score and process the results to surface the most relevant businesses photos and review content.
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. Wed love to have you apply even if you dont feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp were looking for great people not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What youll do:
- Build systems that can effectively store and process terabytes of data.
- Work on the infrastructure that empowers millions of Yelps users to make the best decisions.
- Solve challenging problems such as delivering scalable search and ranking capabilities across our recommendations and delivery systems to serve highquality ads search results and home feed recommendations.
- Work closely with other software engineering teams product managers and data scientists to identify and use the most relevant consumer and business data.
- Gain expertise in cuttingedge infrastructure on largescale search engines and advanced ranking to drive business impact.
- Learn the fine art of balancing scale latency and availability depending on the problem.
- Participate in a lowfrequency oncall rotation.
What it takes to succeed:
- Experience building largescale distributed systems.
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies is preferred: Elasticsearch SOLR Apache Lucene Apache Flink or Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Java Scala Python or a similar language.
- Understanding of systems and application design with an understanding of operational and reliability tradeoffs.
- Solid foundation in data structures algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Exposure to cloud computing services like AWS orAzure.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
What youll get:
- Compensation range is $annually. Depending on your role and level you may also be offered a bonus restricted stock units and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
- You can find more information about Yelps five star benefits here!
Closing
At Yelp we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race age sexual orientation gender identity religion disability and education and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values which include Playing Well With Others and Authenticity.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin ancestry age genetic information sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status veteran status medical condition disability or any other protected status.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at or.
Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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Employment Type
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