Senior Developer Tools Engineer (onsite), United States, CA, Santa Clara

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Posted: November 20, 2006

Job title: Senior Developer Tools Engineer

Company name: Yahoo!

Location: United States, CA, Santa Clara

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Yahoo!'s Engineering Infrastructure group is looking for an experienced
developer interested in building the next generation project management
and issue tracking system.  This high profile application is used by
internal
Yahoo engineering, product and executive management teams on a daily basis.

Internally, the system is perl cgi web app, running in an apache web
server on top of a MySQL database.  Help us enhance the existing system by
adding features, improving performance and fixing bugs.

Responsibilities include:
* Implementation of new functionality
* Technical design and architecture of enhancements with an emphasis
  on scalability
* Quickly understand new code and contribute in a way consistent with
  prior coding conventions
* Documentation of technical designs and projects
* Training and technical assistance to other engineers on an as-needed
basis
* Process and fix defects in the software
* Provide automation scripts wherever possible to reduce manual overhead
for
  maintenance of the system


Required skills:
Basic Qualifications:
* BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent and 5+ years industry experience
* Excellent knowledge of Perl, and web application programming
* Experience with MySQL
* Strong Communication skills
* Collaborative and positive attitude
* Expertise in designing and deploying in Unix environments (FreeBSD,
Linux)


Desired skills:
Preferred Requirements
* Experience with Bugzilla would be a big plus
* CSS and Javascript proficiency is desirable
* Exposure to mod_perl and Template Toolkit


Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4996#contact