Yahoo · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - User Data Platforms
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$128K/yr - $267K/yr
5+ years expYahoo is a technology company that connects brands and partners with a large audience. The Senior Software Development Engineer will help build and optimize mission-critical systems for Yahoo’s User Data Platforms, collaborating with a geo-distributed DevOps team to ensure high performance and reliability.
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Responsibilities
Design, develop, and deploy highly available and highly performant infrastructure platforms and network services that support Yahoo’s user data ecosystem
Collaborate with architecture and technical leads to define requirements, design solutions, and generate implementation plans with minimal guidance
Build and maintain RESTful APIs using Java and modern frameworks, ensuring high throughput and low latency
Design and evolve data models and database schemas for multi-master and transactional distributed environments leveraging Aerospike, GCP Spanner, and other database technologies
Develop integrations with external vendors through secure tunnels, SDKs, and custom communication frameworks
Deploy and monitor multi-cloud services across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and GCP using tools like Lambda, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, S3, GKE, and Spanner
Ensure scalability, reliability, and security across concurrent projects
Leverage AI coding tools such as CoPilot and participate in code reviews to maintain quality and enforce best practices
Contribute to Agile ceremonies and DevOps initiatives that enable fast, reliable releases
Partner with internal product and engineering teams to ensure effective use and adoption of UDP services across Yahoo
Qualification
Required
BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and distributed systems
Proven experience in backend/server development and large-scale distributed systems
Proficiency in Java and a strong understanding of networking technologies (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and implementing mutual TLS (mTLS)
Solid understanding of NoSQL and transactional databases using eventual and strict consistency, and multi-master world-wide replication
Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda) and GCP (e.g., GKE, Spanner)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Excellent communications, collaboration and problem-solving skills
Preferred
Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments preferred
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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