Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Mail

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. The Core Mail Data team builds and operates the data platform that powers Yahoo Mail’s back end. We own the services and infrastructure responsible for storing and serving message metadata, message bodies, and attachments, as well as large‑scale data migration and mailbox metadata systems, all on top of GCP (Spanner, GCS, GKE). As part of this team, you will design, build, and run highly available distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of users, maintain production readiness and BCP for multi‑region deployments, evolve schemas and data models at multi‑petabyte scale, and collaborate closely with Core Mail Services, SRE, and other Mail orgs to deliver reliable, low‑latency data access for every mail experience.
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!
 

Responsibilities: 

• Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features; revise and refine as required 

• Request and participate in code reviews 

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

• Learn from a multitude of sources, including on the job project experience, reviewing code from others, team education sessions, collaborating with peers, frequently soliciting advice & shoulder reviews from leaders & architects, as well as online or class-based learning 

• Take initiative to identify, solve, and pursue problems you discover to full completion 

• Drive the adoption and development of AI solutions to enhance system reliability and developer productivity.

• Stay current with evolving AI-assisted development tools and help define best practices for AI-assisted development.

• Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team 

• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams 

A Lot About You:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field 

• Strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking

• 6+ years of relevant experience 

• 2 years of experience leading teams by designing, building scalable high-performing distributed systems

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

• Proficiency in using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot etc) to accelerate development, generate tests, and refactor code, while understanding their limitations and security implications

• Experience in OOP. Java or C++ preferred

• You enjoy solving problems within a collaborative team. You have an interest in the full life-cycle of a product - designing, coding, testing, reviewing, launching, and troubleshooting. You will have the opportunity to participate in projects with significant impact on the success of Yahoo.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• REST API (with Jersey and/or Servlets 3.0)

• Multi-threaded programming and/or understanding contention issues

• Large-scale, large user base development

• Web-scale or enterprise-scale development

Important notes for your attention

Applications: 

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.  

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you.  Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.  

Offer Distributions: 

Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.

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.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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