Paranoids Software Engineer Verizon Media
Dulles, VA

Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. 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 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. 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 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.

When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries in all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Verizon Media one of the safest places on the Internet. We are the Information Security team at Verizon Media. People call us "The Paranoids".

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the design and development of end-to-end features to help make one of the world's largest internet services the most secure and user friendly, working with seasoned architects, data scientists, creative product managers and a group of very bright engineers. You must have strong development experience in object-oriented languages, practiced test-driven and agile development religiously, are familiar with web security and scrum methodology and can leverage cloud, big data and machine learning. You have an analytical and problem solving mindset to complement your superior communication and presentation skills. You can meet people and quickly get to the essence of their issues. You can make good recommendations on how they should architect their systems to meet their needs while aligning their requirements with the Paranoids organization's roadmap.

* Participate in weekly scrum team planning meetings and daily stand-ups


* Design and scope solutions for new features, and participate in design review discussions


* Implement new features, including unit tests, functional tests, and documentation


* Demo what you have completed, when appropriate, in a weekly meeting to solicit feedback to further improve the feature


* Participate in code reviews of other engineers' work


* Evaluate feature requests originating from outside the team, and work with the requester to determine the optimal solution



Requirements

* 1 to 3 years of Object Oriented design skills and proficiency in either C++, Java or Go


* Strong foundation in Computer Science, data structures and algorithms


* Knowledge and experience in building large scale distributed applications using various software design patterns and OO design principles


* Familiarity with web servers and web services API


* Solid understanding of the software development process: test driven development, agile development and scrum


* Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills


* Development experience in an Unix/Linux environment


* Superior communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills


* BS, MS in Computer Science or related field



Preferred Qualifications

* Good understanding of web related security issues.


* Familiarity with cryptographic protocols, implementations, vulnerabilities, performance characteristics, and tradeoffs


* Cross-browser, cross-platform coding


* Experience with cloud/grid computing. Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem.


* Experience with applying machine learning in product solution.


* Experience with data pipelines, statistical analysis, machine learning, AI


* Strong experience in API, SDK, and Web Service design


* Proficiency in HTML, XML, and SOAP


* Experience in shell scripting and Perl


* Working knowledge of RDBMS, SQL and NoSQL


* System administration background with Linux


* Eligibility for a US government security clearance



Currently work for Verizon Media? Please apply on our internal career site.

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Currently work for Verizon Media? Please apply on our internal career site.