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Yahoo · 8 hours ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

United States of America - Remote

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$128K/yr - $267K/yr

8+ years exp

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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

Qualification

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Large-scale distributed systemsJavaGCPAWSAsync programmingMemory managementJVM internalsCS fundamentalsHTTP protocolTCP/IP protocolUnix (Linux) platform

Required

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

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

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