Software Engineer - Data Backend (Remote - Canada)

Summary Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment. Looking for the perfect restaurant to celebrate a friend’s 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 in-house search engine, NRTSearch, advanced machine learning models and for enhancing it with modern capabilities like KNN-search. 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. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. What you'll do: Build systems that can effectively store and process terabytes of data. Work on the infrastructure that empowers millions of Yelp’s 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 high-quality 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 cutting-edge infrastructure on large-scale 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 low-frequency on-call rotation. What it takes to succeed: Experience building large-scale 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 trade-offs. 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 you'll get: Compensation range is $85,000-237,000 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 Yelp's 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.” We’re 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 accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488. 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. #LI-Remote Recruiting and Applicant Privacy Notice


Build systems that can effectively store and process terabytes of data. Work on the infrastructure that empowers millions of Yelp’s 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 high-quality 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 cutting-edge infrastructure on large-scale 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 low-frequency on-call rotation.


Experience building large-scale 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 trade-offs. 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.