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Company

Yahoo · 22 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer, Core Mail Backend

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$144K/yr - $299K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and debug our continually evolving tech stack to scale & sustain a large scale distributed system.

Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features on a large scale distributed system; revise and refine as required.

Lead project teams, derive implementation roadmap and milestones within business constraints, and execute with predictability and transparency.

Personally implement significant works of complexity and size.

Partner with leads and architects to solve our more challenging problems.

Request and participate significantly in code reviews and part of our committer process.

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 to full completion.

Promote and solicit ideas within project teams, incorporate into proposals, and champion ideas to seek buy-in from leads & managers.

Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team.

Qualification

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Computer Science fundamentalsJavaC++Software DevelopmentDistributed systemsObject-oriented programmingLarge-scale software architectureUNIX/Linux environmentsAsynchronous implementationsMulti-threaded programmingContainerizationCI/CDPublic cloud infrastructureREST APIsTechnical leadershipSSL CertificatesAuthorization tokensDebugging access issues

Required

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field with a strong record of academic achievement.

Programming proficiency in a high level language (preferably Java or C++).

Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, OS and networking.

8+ Years Experience

Proficient in software engineering processes & tools for coding, testing, and debugging.

Significant professional experience in Software Development of backend systems.

Significant experience with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments.

Significant experience designing and developing high performing complex server applications.

Proven track record of technical leadership on complex projects and large roadmaps, including responsibility for design or architecture, breakdown of task for parallel execution, and leading a team of people, or extraordinarily complex or large solo efforts that cannot be parallelized.

Excellent communication and collaborate well with a team and incorporate feedback from leaders.

Enjoy helping people, remain friendly and constructive under stress.

Preferred

Large scale distributed systems (in requests, users, compute, & data)

Public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, etc), design, provisioning, & deployments

Web-scale in user base, traffic, and data

Focus on backend REST APIs & business logic

Asynchronous implementations (especially with HTTP clients & worker models)

Multi-threaded programming and/or understanding contention issues

Java development emphasis

Containerization (Kubernetes), Build, Pipelines, & Deployment (CI/CD)

SSL Certificates, authorization tokens, and debugging access issues

Benefits

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Company

Yahoo

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Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.

Founded in 1994

Sunnyvale, California, USA

10,001+ employees