Backend Software Dev Engineer II - Yahoo Mail, AntiSpam

Yahoo is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Backend Software Dev Engineer II for their Yahoo Mail AntiSpam team. The role involves developing and maintaining systems to protect users from spam and ensuring reliable message delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-performing systems that reliably protect users from spam, phishing, fraud, and abuse with advanced ML/AI algorithms
• Work on architecture design, algorithm development, and data engineering challenges
• Develop and maintain high-performing systems that reliably deliver billions of messages a day to users and the Internet
• Work on problems covering web services, RFCs and networking layers

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, operating system(s) and networking
• 3+ years experience in software development with Golang, Java or C++
• Deep understanding of cloud computing concepts, Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), Software as a service(SaaS) and Platform as a service(PaaS)
• Machine Learning knowledge with some hands on AI coding experience
• Experience with public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes preferably in GCP
• Experience with designing and developing high performing and complex server applications on Unix
• Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills with performance tuning experience
• Great communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress
• Strong understanding of network programming and client/server architecture
• Implement best practices for cloud security, scalability and performance optimization
• Troubleshoot and debug cloud-based applications to ensure reliability and uptime
• Professional experience with high availability/throughput distributed system
• Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, HBase and Spark
• Experience with queuing and streaming technologies like Kafka or Apache Storm
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL
• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Perl and or Ruby
• Knowledge of SCRUM and Agile Methodologies