Senior Backend Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

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.

Do you relish the opportunity to work on one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world, running on thousands of machines and handling petabytes of data? Developing this infrastructure requires solving many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing frameworks, data structures and algorithms. Yahoo Mail Backend Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that power mail for its 200 million plus active users.  We develop technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

You will be designing and implementing the next generation Yahoo Mail services.  We are embarking on a transition from Yahoo data centers  to Public cloud infrastructure. Work on a complete Java stack that serves hundreds of billions of transactions daily.  Develop and maintain REST web-services that power Yahoo clients,  Mail protocol services,  Delivery, Caching and data processing services.  

 Be a part of this exciting transformation!

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• Strong experience in large-scale distributed systems 

• 8+ years of Java experience

• Experience building applications in GCP or AWS 

• Experience in async programming, memory management, JVM internals.

• A keen interest in solving complex problems around scalability and performance

• Ability to collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team `

Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity

• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe 

• Automate the provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and management of our infrastructure

• Lead projects and mentor junior team members

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

• Effectively collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams

• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with minimum 6 year’s experience

• Experience in implementing and/or operating highly scalable and available services on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP)

• Experience with OOP: Java, C++, or similar

• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, object oriented programming)

• Familiar with HTTP and TCP/IP protocol

• Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

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 (

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The compensation for this position ranges from $104,700.00 - $174,500.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including a competitive health and dental package, RRSP match program, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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