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Alibaba.com Recruiting Event in Silicon Valley – Dec. 2 – 9th, 2010
Alibaba is pleased to invite Silicon Valley IT professionals to an exclusive networking and learning dinner event on or around December 2nd, 2010. The event will feature a speech by Dr. Andy Li, VP of Alibaba engineering and a Silicon Valley returnee. You will have opportunity to meet senior executives from Alibaba engineering department.
Alibaba is poised for explosive growth and is looking for passionate, self-motivated professionals to take the business to the next level. All job opportunities are based in Hangzhou, China.
Exact date and location will be notified once you are confirmed for the event.
Candidates please send resumes to: wto-resume@alibaba-inc.com
Below please find information about Alibaba.com and job openings.
Alibaba.com - Global leader in e-commerce for small businesses
Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688) (1688.HK) is the global leader in e-commerce for small businesses and the flagship company of Alibaba Group.
Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba.com makes it easy for millions of buyers and suppliers around the world to do business online through three marketplaces: a global trade platform (www.alibaba.com) for importers and exporters; a Chinese platform (www.1688.com) for domestic trade in China; and, through an associated company, a Japanese platform (www.alibaba.co.jp) facilitating trade to and from Japan. In addition, Alibaba.com offers a wholesale platform on the global site (www.aliexpress.com) geared for smaller buyers seeking fast shipment of small quantities of goods. Together, these marketplaces form a community of more than 53 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba.com also offers business management software and Internet infrastructure services targeting businesses across China, and provides educational services to incubate enterprise management and e-commerce professionals. Alibaba.com has offices in more than 60 cities across Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States. Alibaba.com also owns Vendio Services, Inc. and Auctiva, leading providers of third-party e-commerce solutions for online merchants. Vendio and Auctiva are based in California.
Alibaba.com completed its US$1.7 billion initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in November 2007, the biggest Internet IPO at the time since Google's 2004 offering on the NASDAQ.
Other companies in Alibaba Group include:
- Taobao - China's largest Internet retail website and one-stop platform for shopping, socializing and information sharing
- Alipay - China's leading third-party online payment platform
- Alibaba Cloud Computing - Developer of advanced data-centric cloud computing services
- China Yahoo! - One of China's leading Internet portals
These businesses reach Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions, and employ more than 19,000 people worldwide
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Position1:
Lead Technical Architect (架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department 工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：2 job code：P8-P9 人数：2人 层级：P8-P9
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Sun, Oracle
Job Description:
1. Research and develop technologies for the world’s leading B2B commercial platform，together with extremely talented peers in a fun environment.
2. Leading application development with Java EE platform (may involve C++ integration)
3. Proactively identify and synthesize the common technology needs, define technology solution initiatives, strategy and development plan, and lead the implementation and execution.
4. Analysis the business requirement, design, develop and maintain technology solution
5. Work directly with the Product Manager or functioning in that role, takes ownership of the development and engineering integration of new product features, and can lead successful end to end product releases, which include usability, integration, packaging, and documentation.
6. Capable of assuming the leadership to make decisions and resolve ambiguities in the product requirements on behalf of the Product Manager.
7. Identify key tools and processes that are missing or need improvement to improve the quality and efficiency of the organization.
8. Technical leader and mentor with very deep experience, and diversified research and development skills.
Job Requirement:
1. 6+ years of large scale application development experience on preference in web or distributed application, senior architect with 8+ years experience is preferred.
2. Strong Unix and large mission critical systems infrastructure and architecture background. Have project experiences with JBoss , BEA Weblogic or IBM WebSphere is a plus.
3. Experience in project management, well-versed in software engineering modeling and methodology.
4. Outstanding productivity, top quality results, and superior problem resolution capability.
5. Good inter-personal, communication and presentation skills.
6. Bachelor degree in CS, related Master or Doctor Degree is preferred.
Position 2:
Technical Director (技术总监)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department 工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：2 job code：M4 人数：2人 层级：M4
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Google
Job Description:
Lead a team of 30+ outstanding engineers with the target of building the most innovative online marketplace system, which can support numerous countries and different payment methods.
Job Requirement:
1. Have engineering and management experience on one or more of these key areas: e-Commerce marketplace, online payment system, payment risk management.
2. 5+ years of experience leading engineering team to build large scale internet applications.
3. Strong computer engineering background. BS in Computer Science or related fields. MS/PhD preferred.
4. Expertise in Java, J2EE, Linux, database and distributed computing.
5. Comfortable building and managing a team of 30+ engineers.
Position 3:
Principal Risk Analyst (支付风控分析师)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department 工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：1 job code：P7-P9 人数：1人 层级：P7-P9
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon
Job Description:
1. Recognize the potential payment risk in Alibaba B2B transactions around the world.
2. Work with Product development team to define the risk management product.
Job Requirement:
1. Experience in one or more of the followings in payment risk management: system development, risk analytics, policy, product management or operation.
2. 3+ years of experience in risk analysis, algorithm and modeling for large scale payment risk management system.
3. Strong background in: statistics, machine learning, large scale internet applications. BS in Computer Science or Statistics. MS/PhD preferred.
Position 4:
System Operation Architect (系统运维架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department 工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：1 job code：P8-P10 人数：1人 层级：P8-P10
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Sun, Oracle
Job Description:
1. Target on site's high availability, be in charge of design, implementation, and on-going optimization of system and operation infrastructure for large-scale web site
2. Be the leading role in researching and applying system technique, include selecting operation system, customizing kernel, optimizing system, and promote appropriate technique in production
3. Be the leading role in dealing with difficulties in operation area, such as solving major outage, troubleshooting performance bottleneck, etc.
4. Help on setting up operation standard, working process, and emergency plan
Requirements:
1. 5+ years system administration experience in big internet companies, or 3+ years experience as system architect or senior system engineer
2. With experience in large-scale web site operation, expertise on capacity planning, architechture, and performance tuning
3. Good understanding on Linux, TCP/IP, and network, proficient in programming in scripting languages like Shell, Perl, and Python
4. Strong troubleshooting ability, pay attention on process and specification, sensitive on new technology
5. Good at project management and process control, keen in identifying and managing risks
6. Willing to team work, with the sense of customer service
7. Passion and persistence, working under pressure, goal oriented.
Position 5:
CRM Senior Business Architect (CRM业务架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Core System Department 工作部门：B2B技术部核心系统部
Quantity：2 job code：P8-P9 人数：2人 层级：P8-P9
Target companies：Oracle Siebel, Salesforce.com, Amdocs, SAS, SAP, Microsoft, Sage, NetSuite, Amazon, Google
Job Description:
1. Responsible for the overall architecture designing and technology planning of the CRM products and platform, lead the architecture design team to design and develop overall product solutions, and ensure advanced and competitive architecture.
2. Defining CRM architectural concepts from both a technical perspective and business/financial perspective. Conduct cost/benefit analyses to determine proper architecture solutions.
3. Provide technical leadership to infrastructure and applications/systems development teams to advance infrastructure technology. Utilizing extensive knowledge of multiple technologies and platforms, provide technical design recommendations based on long-term IT organizational strategy and evolution of technology.
4. Keep track of the latest architecture and technology development and competitive trend in the CRM field, and improve the industry and technology view of the CRM architecture design team; pilot the overall technical orientation of CRM field.
5. Lead formulation of technical strategies/roadmaps and planning of CRM platform, and be responsible for continuous improvement of technical competitive power of the CRM platform.
6. Taking pivotal role encompassing design of business and technical solutions, business development and project management responsibilities.
7. Being responsible for consulting with current customers at the IT management and senior executive level to identify requirements. Develop business cases, present technical solutions and develop an ongoing relationship to meet and exceed the customer’s expectations.
8. Provide highest level of application analysis and act as a consultant for BOSS/CRM Analysts. Serves as a technical resource and mentor providing guidance and advice on CRM platform and major project
Job Requirement:
1. Bachelor degree in computer science or a related discipline preferred with 8 years of CRM infrastructure/systems/applications analysis and design working experience. Strong understanding of software application architectures.
2. Must have strong understanding of Architecture design process, methodology, and high level of understanding of business environment, strategy and needs. Advanced understanding of software lifecycle methodology and information systems development.
3. Must have a high degree of understanding in the CRM theories, methodologies and principals underlying technical analysis, design and implementation of software applications, systems, databases, and/or infrastructure.
4. Deep understanding of main CRM products, application in the industry, market situation, and development trend, and successful practice of the core design ideas and architectures of developed CRM solutions.
5. Must have proven expert analytical and design skills at multi-product/multi-environment levels as well as in-depth experience in research and analysis, project planning and implementation. Sound business related skills including excellent problem solving, team building, judgment and decision making skills.
6. Understanding of data mining, business process, modeling techniques and business analysis. Expertise in at least one of the areas of Data Architecture, ETL design and Data Mining.
7. Be business-driven and results-driven, and have business acumen.
8. Be self-motivated and influential, and be good at sharing.
9. Strong communications and interpersonal skills.
Position 6:
Senior Data Mining Analyst (数据挖掘研究员)
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department 工作部门：B2B数据仓库部产品研发部
Quantity：1 job code：P7-P9 人数：1人 层级：P7-P9
Target companies：eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google。
Job Responsibilities
1：Through effective partnership with lead project data mining analyst, provide statistical input to study design, data mining analysis plans, interpretation of data mining ,results, project development plans, regulatory issues and scientific and commercialization projects
2: Be good at data mining methods, including logistic regression, decision tree ,clustering etc，participate many data mining projects
3: Have experience in e-commerce marketing sales strategy or related knowledge.
4：Comply with all data mining analyst and quality processes and standards that are applicable to statistical outputs, and support processes that require statistical input. Communicate and collaborate with other project teams to ensure consistency of statistical approaches.
5: Participate in research on data mining methodology to business needs.
6. Identify key data mining tools and processes that are available
7. Create and deliver training to both internal and external resources on different tools , technologies, and processes about data mining
Job Requirements:
1.University graduate with a master Degree or above;
2.8 years overall experience, minimum 3 years in a management or team leading position in respect of the building and/or design of data centers;
3.Ability to manage the complex work environment;
4.Very good motivational skills to lead a team of professionals to deliver a common objective;
5.Good planning skills.
Position 7
Principal Software Engineer for Search Engine
（搜索技术专家）
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点:杭州
Department: B2B Advertise and Search Center
工作部门：B2B广告与搜索中心-搜索引擎工程部
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google ,IBM ,Sun, Oracle
The Advertising and Search Center (ASC, http://asc.alibaba.com ) of Alibaba is passionate about building the cutting-edge search engine for the largest business to business marketplace on the web. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, data analysis, multi-terabyte storage systems, high-performance, high availability computing, and efficient massive graph traversal algorithms.
Responsibilities:
1. Design and enhance features in core components of the search engine.
2. Analyze problems and identify opportunities aggressively for engineering improvement and enhanced user experience.
3. Drive projects from design to deployment.
Requirements:
1. 5+ years experience in systems programming and multi-threaded programming
2. MS in computer science or information retrieval
3. High technical competence, track record of strong coding and individual technical accomplishments.
4. Exceptional C++/C programming skills on Unix/Linux platform.
5. Solid background in software design principles and algorithms.
6. Proven experience in the most challenging aspects of systems programming and multi-threading programming (e.g. high-performance database systems, information retrieval systems, application framework runtime)
7. Good oral and written communication skills.
8. Experience with any of the following a huge plus:
- Database systems design/development
- Information retrieval systems design/development
Position 8
Principal Software Engineer for Advertising Platform（广告平台技术专家）
Location: Hangzhou, China 工作地点:杭州
Department: B2B Advertise and Search Center
工作部门：B2B广告与搜索中心-广告应用工程部
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google ,IBM ,Sun, Oracle
特殊说明 （如是否考虑国内招聘等）：向国内开放，可用国内猎头。
The Advertising and Search Center (ASC, http://asc.alibaba.com) is building the next generation advertising platforms for the largest business to business marketplace on the web. The platform will understand web page content and search user behavior that will enable targeted advertising and personalization on its advertising network.
Specific challenges include designing high-performance algorithms and developing reliable, fault-tolerant and scalable systems that can handle terabytes of data.
Responsibilities:
1. Architect, design & develop extensible, scalable, reliable advertising systems with product management and application engineering teams
2. Interact with other teams to define interfaces and understand dependencies
3. Participate in the core component design and continuous improvements including scalable system design, high performance computing, distributed computing, performance analysis and tools development.
Requirements:
1. MS/PhD in CS or other relevant discipline.
2. 5+ years of software development experience
3. Systems programming background with Linux/Unix environment. Multi-process, networking, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable
4. Experience designing and architecting clustered, high performance systems
5. Excellent in C/C++ , Perl scripting language
6. Experience in search engines and/or ad serving systems is definitely a plus.
7. Excellent communication skills
