Sr. Software Development Engineer

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 

Yahoo brands comprise some of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

As a high-traffic destination on the Internet, Yahoo is a prime target of attack via spam, phishing, denial-of-service, user account takeover, Ad fraud, and various other forms of abuse. The Traffic Protection team at Yahoo innovates, designs, and develops scalable systems to detect and filter abusive traffic for all Yahoo sites.

Our team is building the next generation of highly scalable systems to process and filter web-scale traffic. We partner with scientists and innovate on various technologies, including machine learning methodologies, to better understand traffic and content.

A Lot About You 

If you are an outstanding, self-driven engineer with hands-on experience developing highly-performant software and looking for exciting challenges, we’d like to talk to you. As a Software Dev. Engineer in the anti-abuse platform team, you will help us develop and deliver key components of the anti-abuse solutions, as well as ensure that the quality and performance of the components developed are

exceptional.

You will design, build, and deploy scalable platforms, leveraging Yahoo’s distributed computing technologies. You will also contribute to the development and evolution of the supporting tools and ecosystem of our Traffic Protection platform. You will lead design discussions and implementations in smaller groups and sub-projects.

Your Day 

You will spend your days doing things like:

• Design and develop scalable platforms, primarily in C/C++ on distributed systems

• Develop large-scale traffic protection systems and tools and/or contribute to 

• Ensure quality and performance of components developed

• Active participation in understanding systems in detail, in debugging and providing technical support & maintenance and in design/code reviews

• Exercise Agile development methodologies to create platform services and features

You Must Have 

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

• Good programming skills, preferably in C/C++

• Good systems understanding and debugging skills

• Good understanding of computer networking concepts including familiarity with HTTP and associated protocols

• Solid fundamentals in data structures and algorithms

• Experience in cloud native application development and architecture preferably in GCP or AWS

• Well versed in the Linux environment

• Shaping technical requirements into design documents and software implementation

• Excellent communication and self-organization skills

• Good experience in building and supporting high performance/scalable systems - preferably 4+ years

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.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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.

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