Software Dev Engineer II

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.

A Lot About You

• You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you.

• You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them.

• You are extremely curious. You are constantly interested in how the software you interact with works “under the hood.”

• You are customer focused–regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team

• You know that writing code isn’t the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how that code is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build platform services used by multiple internal product teams, focusing on developing experience and self-service capabilities.

• Own the services you build, ensuring they run reliably in production and addressing issues end-to-end

• You would be building new infrastructure in AWS and GCP, including event-driven pipelines and workflow orchestration systems.

• Design and maintain data pipelines that ingest, enrich, and distribute content across the organization.

• You would be part of defining the foundations of the infrastructure that will power the next generation of products at Yahoo, using the latest in cloud services, frameworks and open source tools.

• Help to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery.

• Contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team’s goals.

• Collaborate with your peers, product managers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• 3+ years of strong programming experience in Python, Go, Javascript, etc.

• Experience with architecting infrastructure in GCP and or AWS

• Experience with message queue and event streaming (Pub/Sub, SNS/SQS, or similar)

• In-depth knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spanner, MongoDB, DynamoDB, BigQuery)

• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and version control

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform

• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (Datadog)

• Solid experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience architecting, implementing and maintaining web server applications

• Proficiency in managing APIs and integrating third-party APIs

• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)

Nice to Have

• Experience building or operating data ingestion or enrichment pipelines

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Temporal.io, or similar)

• Familiarity with schema management, data validation, and data governance

• Exposure to ML-adjacent systems (feature stores, enrichment systems, model inference)

• Demonstrated ability to apply AI tooling in real-world production environments

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, s