Senior Backend Software Dev Engineer, Yahoo Mail
YahooAbout the role
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.
A Lot About You
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.
Launch it for bucket (A/Bl testing for small percentage of the users and once the experiment is successful launch it widely for all our users.
Qualifications:
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with a strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS, and Networking
5+ years experience in software development with Java and/or C++
3+ years experience in owning and designing components of large-scale systems
Demonstrated problem-solving skills and taking initiatives
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 options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receiv
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