Software Engineer - Yahoo Mail Backend

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:
As a global email provider, Yahoo Mail is the ultimate Consumer Inbox with over 200 million users. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. Our goal is to make communication simple, enjoyable and more productive to help our users run the business of life.
Role:
Yahoo Mail Mail engineering team builds, enhances, and maintains one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet. We handle billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages requiring petabytes of efficient storage. We develop and maintain high-performing systems that provide REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP, SMTP) services, and industry leading mail synchronization.
Responsibilities :

• Design and develop large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe
• Automate the provisioning, CI/CD pipelines , and management of our infrastructure
• Effectively collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Job Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Fluency in one of the programming languages including Java/C++
• Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform
• Great communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress.

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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.
The compensation for this position ranges from $79,500.00 - $168,125.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program.
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