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It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Yahoo! employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? Our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo's Platforms Engineering organization creates modern, secure, and efficient software platforms to power all of Yahoo's brands at scale.
The Anti-Abuse Platforms at Yahoo, enables Yahoo's technology teams to develop, deploy and operate products efficiently and reliably on an integrated, scalable platform and framework that offers anti-abuse and image enrichment solutions from the ground up.
As a high-traffic destination on the Internet, Yahoo is a prime target of attack via spam, phishing, denial-of-service, inappropriate user generated content (including comments & media) and various other forms of abuse. The Abuse Prevention Platforms team at Yahoo innovates, designs and develops scalable systems to detect and filter abusive traffic and user generated content for all Yahoo sites. Our image enrichment solutions extend beyond moderation and allow our customers to better understand and innovate on images.
Our team is building the next generation of highly scalable systems to process and filter web scale traffic. We partner with sciences and innovating on various technologies including machine learning methodologies for better understanding of traffic and content.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.
US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
If hired for this position in Colorado, the compensation range for this position is between $97,500.00 - $162,500.00. The compensation may vary depending on your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include additional incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, plus equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, retirement, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Yahoo! employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? Our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo's Platforms Engineering organization creates modern, secure, and efficient software platforms to power all of Yahoo's brands at scale.
The Anti-Abuse Platforms at Yahoo, enables Yahoo's technology teams to develop, deploy and operate products efficiently and reliably on an integrated, scalable platform and framework that offers anti-abuse and image enrichment solutions from the ground up.
As a high-traffic destination on the Internet, Yahoo is a prime target of attack via spam, phishing, denial-of-service, inappropriate user generated content (including comments & media) and various other forms of abuse. The Abuse Prevention Platforms team at Yahoo innovates, designs and develops scalable systems to detect and filter abusive traffic and user generated content for all Yahoo sites. Our image enrichment solutions extend beyond moderation and allow our customers to better understand and innovate on images.
Our team is building the next generation of highly scalable systems to process and filter web scale traffic. We partner with sciences and innovating on various technologies including machine learning methodologies for better understanding of traffic and content.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable platforms, primarily in Java or C++ on distributed systems
- Develop large-scale traffic protection systems and/or content classification systems to filter spam, adult, profane and other objectionable text/image/video/URLs or otherwise provide content enrichment
- Design and develop enhancements to various tools supporting the traffic protection and content moderation & enrichment platform.
- Ensure quality and performance of components developed
- Engage with teams to define requirements/interfaces/implementation approaches
- Exercise agile development methodologies to create platform services and features
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in web infrastructure, distributed systems, and/or large-scale databases
- Strong experience in Java / Python / C/C++
- Solid fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in object-oriented programming and design
- Experience with container and cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS - a strong plus
- Experience with either of Big data technologies, ML, full stack dev experience (including front end), Lua , Traffic server - a strong plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent or MS preferred
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.
US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
If hired for this position in Colorado, the compensation range for this position is between $97,500.00 - $162,500.00. The compensation may vary depending on your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include additional incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, plus equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, retirement, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
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