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A Little About Us
The Yahoo Mail Anti-spam Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that reliably protect our users from spam and abuse with advanced ML/AI algorithms. These systems require 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.
You Must Have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Experience in software development with Java or C++
• Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills with performance tuning experience
• Great communication skills, joy in helping people, ability to remain friendly and constructive under stress

Love to Have:

• Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase and Spark
• Experience in algorithm design and ML/AI
• Previous exposure to anti-spam or anti-abuse engineering
• Familiarity with data mining, text processing and classification algorithms
• Understanding of statistical methods and exploratory data analysis

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