Software Engineer II – Data Storage Systems

About Us:

The Yahoo Mail engineering team provides opportunities to work on challenges that are as exciting as the Yahoo Mail product itself at the scale that only a handful of companies can match. 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. We are looking for innovative, entrepreneurial, and passionate developers to help us build the future of communications experiences and delight our users. We are engineers who strive to deliver our users only the absolute best and are willing to meticulously refine the details to achieve this goal.

We believe that engineering is only a piece of the effort and that you must be as passionate about the user’s experience as you are about code quality and architecture. Our goal is to make communication simple, enjoyable and more productive to help our users run the business of life.

About the team:

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. The team is responsible to architect these platforms, build scalable and modular systems, measure and optimize system performance, and ensure that systems run reliably in a 24/7 production environment.

Specifically, we work on a complete Java stack that serves hundreds of billions of transactions daily and will work on the complete redesign of the Mail Backend Storage System to make our system secure, highly available and durable. We also work on Next Gen solutions to reduce the hardware cost and Innovative algorithms to keep the user data in sync across multiple copies.

Sounds Exciting? Then, come join us!!

Responsibilities:

• Building large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Leading and contributing to the technical architecture and design of complex systems
• Mentoring and providing guidance to junior engineers
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams & stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions
• Conducting code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices
• Implementing best practices and ensuring code quality
• Resolving technical issues and debugging complex problems
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

A lot about YOU:

You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality engineering that can help modernize systems in the Cloud. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership (mentors), and understand the broader impact of your work. If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who like to work hard and play hard, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Software development experience in OOP languages such as Java, C++, or similar
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform
• Familiar with designing and developing high performing and complex server applications
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world
• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years Software development experience in API development
• Fast learner, who can quickly come up to speed with different technologies & troubleshoot issues
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication/presentation skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Knowledge and operational experience running large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with cloud native application development and architecture, preferably in AWS or GCP
• Experience with test-driven development