Software Dev Engineer - Mail Compute Infrastructure

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.

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. 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. Want in?

A Little About Us:

Yahoo Mail is the second largest Email provider in the world with very large number of active users, and thus very high throughput and scale. Digital Transformation is a highly critical multi-year initiative for Yahoo Mail, as part of which, we are modernizing our current tech stack on public cloud while building new cloud-native components, systems and tools to support wide range of core features and functionality. As a result, we need highly qualified engineers to design, build and manage scalable Mail Infrastructure on public cloud for large number of Mail services and components.

A Lot About You:

You are a self-starter with a passion for creating, deploying and maintaining infrastructure components, tools and services on public cloud at scale. You are comfortable working in a dynamic environment, with the ability to adapt to new technologies and learnings, and to prioritize multiple tasks and challenges in order to keep pace with an innovative and changing product and technical landscape. Your strong technical background, innovation and clear communication skills will serve you well in this demanding role, as will your comfort working with our high-energy team.

Your Day:

• Develop and Deploy large scale infrastructure components, tools and services on public cloud at scale, preferably using Kubernetes-based orchestration solutions

• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the deployment of the infrastructure and services

• Work seamlessly in an individual and team settings on innovative infrastructure technologies

• Participate in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews

You Must Have:

• BS/M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent along with 3+ year(s) of experience

• Solid experience in Infrastructure provisioning and K8s-based deployment at scale

• Practical core knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform is strong plus

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Structured thinker, excellent communication, interpersonal skills

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 (

) or call

408-336-1409

. 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. 

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 (

) or call . 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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.