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.

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.

Yahoo! Mail Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that provide API (Web Services, IMAP, & POP), Metadata and Elastic Storage for the electronic mail and its auxiliary functions. The system handles billions of requests a day, and supports a variety of clients, mobile, desktop, & web. The team works on problems that cover a wide spectrum - from web services to operating systems and networking layers. You will help build the next generation backend for Yahoo! Mail.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead a technical team of about 10 engineers to design and implement highly reliable, scalable, extensible, maintainable, global, and operable products and platforms.
• Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents.
• Build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape decisions regarding Yahoo!s architectural strategy
• Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices developed with the organization
• Develop division-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant product or organizational pain-points
• Participate in a network of architects to share ideas, practices, and experiences
• Work closely with product management and development teams to define the next generation of communications and data systems
• You must enjoy challenging engineering problems. We are looking for someone who can solve complex issues.
• We value architects who do enough hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside the company
  
  

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• MS/BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• At least 5 years experience leading teams of 5+ building internet scale distributed systems
• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Demonstrated leadership in technologies that are core to Yahoo!s products (distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, multi-tier serving architectures, mobile devices, and communications protocols)
• Great communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress
  
  

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Extensive experience/expertise in systems of scale in a Public Cloud (GCP, AWS,...)
• Extensive experience/expertise in SQL
  
  

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of

our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com

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 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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