Yahoo · 5 hours ago
Sr. Principal Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$161K/yr - $350K/yr
12+ years expYahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. They are seeking a skilled platform architect to define and implement the next generation of Yahoo Finance’s cloud architecture, including AI platforms, while actively coding and guiding teams with technology choices.
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Responsibilities
Drive strong technical alignment across all platforms at Yahoo Finance
Define the architectural direction for platforms and advocate to platform teams
Empower as much self-service as possible across our platforms, allowing full-stack teams to iterate and contribute independently
Be an advocate for YF’s platform direction within the broader Yahoo engineering organization
Work with AI architects and researchers on the best application platform solutions to deliver state-of-the-art AI products and features
Work with production engineering and leadership to ensure the most cost-effective cloud solutions
Collaborate with the quality engineering group to define platform QA standards
Reduce time to onboard new engineers
Establish idiomatic and self-documenting platform solutions that align to YF standards
Build partnerships with other platform architects around the organization
Participate in architectural reviews and establish standards for architecture design
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
12+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong emphasis on building scalable, cloud-native platform applications
Proficiency in designing serverless cloud-native solutions using AWS technologies such as Lambdas
Proficiency working with containerized workloads
Proficiency working with both real-time and static data systems
Experience working with a variety of database systems, including traditional relational databases, document stores, in-memory databases and cloud-native solutions like MemoryDB
Experience optimizing performance, latency, cost
Product-Oriented Mindset: Demonstrates a strong understanding of user needs and business goals, prioritizing work and making technical decisions that best serve the product and its users
Strong team player who values diverse perspectives and encourages open dialogue
Ability to articulate complex technical ideas and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail in implementation, balanced with a focus on delivering user value
Opinionated backed by evidence; strong at influencing others to follow
Experience leading technical projects or complex features while remaining deeply involved in the coding and implementation details
Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide team members through active technical collaboration and code review
Preferred
Preference for experience in an agent orchestration framework such as AWS Bedrock, GCP Agentspace, Langchain
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
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.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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