Software Engineer II - Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with over 220 million users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.
About Yahoo
Yahoo is focused on making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Our businesses span across Communications, Media, Search and many other verticals. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media & technology brands and are a global leader in digital and mobile, shaping the future of media. We create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses.
A Little About Us
The Yahoo Mail Delivery Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that reliably deliver billions of messages a day to users and the Internet. The system requires extreme reliability, resilience and performance. It is the most critical infrastructure that transfers messages across systems. The team works on problems that cover a wide spectrum - from web services, RFCs and networking layer.
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever. Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day.
You Must Have

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Experience in software development with Java or C++ or Golang
• 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

Love To Have

• Strong understanding of network programming and client/server architecture
• Professional experience with high availability/throughput distributed system
• Experience with queuing and streaming technologies like Kafka or Apache Storm
• Experience with public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

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