Senior Software Dev Engineer - Yahoo Mail
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A Little About Us:
The Xobni platform is the Contacts and Contact-based Relationship and Recommendation platform for Yahoo Mail. We are a large scale distributed platform that serves hundreds of millions of users serving billions of requests everyday with low latency and high reliability.
Our platform requires extreme reliability, resilience, and performance. We are tackling some of the toughest challenges in architecture design, algorithm development, and data engineering. There are innumerable opportunities to innovate in all these areas.
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone, or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning-fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever. Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to work on next-generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day.
Responsibilities:
Working on projects of diverse scope and complexity, design, build, implement, modify, test, debug and deploy software systems, large-scale infrastructure platforms and network services
Responsible for performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security.
Collect requirements for product features from product team. come up with design specifications for the features and conduct formal and informal design reviews with the team.
Implement final design with low latency and stand alone technologies including tests.
Tech Lead for projects involving many people (design, develop, ship and maintain)
Scope work and break it down into deliverables, milestones; Estimate and manage project timelines, risk
Set technical direction for the team; Identify and reduce technical debt proactively
Understand tradeoffs between technical, product, user, security, legal and develop solutions based on them
Provide technical advice on projects involving multiple teams
Responsible for quality of the team delivery and ensuring knowledge is shared
A lot About You:
5+ years Software development experience with 2+ years experience as Lead Engineer
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
Experience with cloud native application development in GCP using, GKE, Data Flow, Apache Beam, PubSub, Spanner etc
Expertise in distributed software systems such as stream/batch processing, highly scalable serving systems
Proven experience building software systems which are highly scalable and performant
Experience cross collaborating with other functions such as Production Engineering, DevOps, Front End, Product management, UX Design
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