Research Scientist

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Cloud computing

Job Description

The Research team at Yahoo! is an interdisciplinary group of research scientists and engineers that work on the Edgecast Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make it the fastest, most reliable and secure content delivery platform in the world. The team works on Internet-scale technologies that influence how our services cache and deliver content, and shape and route traffic. Beyond content delivery and traffic management, the team also works on enhancing our security portfolio, in particular, products like Web Application Firewall, HTTP Rate-Limiting, Bot Mitigation product lines, and TLS/Crypto infrastructure products.

Responsibilities:

• Build systems and design experiments to measure the performance and reliability of the CDN.
• Collaborate with core engineering teams to build a holistic understanding of technical challenges and opportunities of running a 24x7 globally distributed CDN.
• Explore ideas and develop new algorithms and systems to make Edgecast the fastest, most reliable and secure content delivery platform in the world today and into the future.
• Participate in industry working groups and academic conferences.
• Build software applications in the CDN, especially around our Security product offerings.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics or related disciplines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to distill complex and abstract concepts into simple constructs.
• Demonstrable success as an individual researcher and as a member of a research group. Capable of leading projects from inception to delivery.
• Deep understanding of theory and practice of at least one of the following domains: Networking (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, QUIC, DNS, BGP), Systems (Linux Kernel, Caching Algorithms, HPC), or Data Science (Analytics, Expert Systems, Machine Learning).
• Hands-on programming in Python, R, Go, C, C++ in GNU/Linux.
• Knowledge of at least one of the following web services technologies: Web Servers, DNS, load balancing, firewalls.