Backend Software Dev Engineer II - Yahoo Mail, AntiSpam

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s 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.

Yahoo Mail AntiSpam Engineering: The Yahoo Mail Antispam team develops and maintains high-performing systems that reliably protect our users from spam, phishing, fraud, and abuse with advanced ML/AI algorithms. These systems require 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 email 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.

Yahoo Mail Delivery Engineering: The Yahoo Mail Delivery Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that reliably deliver billions of messages a day to users and the Internet. The system requires extreme reliability, resilience and performance. It is a critical infrastructure that transfers messages across systems. The team works on problems that cover a wide spectrum - including web services, RFCs and networking layers.

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 email 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.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, operating system(s) and networking

• 3+ years experience in software development with Golang, Java or C++ 

• Deep understanding of cloud computing concepts, Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), Software as a service(SaaS) and Platform as a service(PaaS).

• Machine Learning knowledge with some hands on AI coding experience.

• Experience with public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS)

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes preferably in GCP

• Experience with designing and developing high performing and complex server applications on Unix

• Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills with performance tuning experience

• Great communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of network programming and client/server architecture

• Implement best practices for cloud security, scalability and performance optimization.

• Troubleshoot and debug cloud-based applications to ensure reliability and uptime.

• Professional experience with high availability/throughput distributed system

• Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, HBase and Spark

• Experience with queuing and streaming technologies like Kafka or Apache Storm

• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Perl and or Ruby

• Knowledge of SCRUM and Agile Methodologies

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work opt