Backend Systems Engineer

22 hours ago


Richardson, Texas, United States Yahoo Holdings Inc. Full time
About the Team

We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet. We directly impact approximately 220 million users every month, serving billions of requests a day across servers and cloud solutions across the world, and are critical to Yahoo's success.

About the Tech Stack

We achieve high scale on each server using async technologies developed in-house as well as from open source and cloud technologies. We take an industry-leading number of connections, in the order of 100s of thousands on a single server or instance to achieve a very cost-friendly footprint.

About You

We are looking for smart people, with strong CS fundamentals, that collaborate well, learn quickly, and value high-quality code. The most successful engineers own and drive their tasks to completion, collaborate well to achieve their goal, can think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from our leadership, and understand the broader impact.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field with a strong record of academic achievement;
  • Programming proficiency in a high-level language (preferably Java or C);
  • Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, OS and networking;
  • 8 years of experience;
  • Proficient in software engineering processes and tools for coding, testing, and debugging;
  • Significant professional experience in Software Development of backend systems;
  • Significant experience with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments;
  • Significant experience designing and developing high-performing complex server applications;
  • Proven track record of technical leadership on complex projects and large roadmaps, including responsibility for design or architecture, breakdown of task for parallel execution, and leading a team of people, or extraordinarily complex or large solo efforts that cannot be parallelized;
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively with a team and incorporate feedback from leaders;
  • Enjoy helping people, remain friendly and constructive under stress;
  • A large-scale distributed systems expert;
  • A public cloud infrastructure designer and deployer;
  • A web-scale user base, traffic, and data handler;
  • A focus on backend REST APIs and business logic;
  • An asynchronous implementations expert;
  • A multi-threaded programming specialist;
  • A Java development expert;
  • A containerization and CI/CD expert;
  • An SSL Certificate, authorization tokens, and debugging access issues resolver;
  • A problem-solver and a lifelong learner;
  • A passionate advocate for clean code and collaborative teamwork.


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