Software Engineer II, Yahoo Mail Backend

Posted 6 Days Ago
United States of America
111K-231K Annually
Mid level
AdTech • Digital Media • Information Technology • Other
The Role
As a Software Engineer II for Yahoo Mail, you'll design, test, and debug various mail features and systems to support over 250 million users, focusing on large-scale distributed systems and collaborating with teams to promote best practices and innovative solutions.
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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.

A Little About Us:

We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet.  We are the first component in the mail back end, a middle tier, that contains the APIs and business logic through which virtually all mail operations flow.  We implement REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web, Yahoo, AOL, etc), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP, etc) for generic mail clients, and industry leading back-end mail synchronization. 

Come join this amazing team of engineers to have a more direct impact on serving users and data at uniquely high scale, work on the next generation tech stack, and support innovative product experiences to grow users.
 

A Lot About You:

We are looking for smart people, with strong CS fundamentals, that collaborate well, learn quickly, and value high quality code.  The most successful engineers own and drive their tasks to completion, collaborate well to achieve their goal, can think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from our leadership, and understand the broader impact. 

Your Day

  • Design, implement, test, and debug our continually evolving tech stack to scale & sustain a large scale distributed system. 250M active users. 

  • Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features on a large scale distributed system; revise and refine as required.

  • Partner with leads and architects to solve our more challenging problems.

  • Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospectives.

  • Promote and solicit ideas within project teams, incorporate into proposals, and champion ideas to seek buy-in from leads & managers.

  • Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team.

Qualifications:

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field; Or, equivalent experience

  • 4+ Years Experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems.

  • Programming proficiency in a high level language (preferably Java),  

  • Experience in public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, etc), design, provisioning, & deployments.

  • Experience with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments.

  • Excellent communication and collaborate well with a team and incorporate feedback from leaders.

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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 receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

Top Skills

AWS
GCP
Java
Linux
Rest Apis
Unix
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The Company
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

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