AI-Forward Engineering Lead, Anti-Spam & Delivery

Yahoo Holdings Inc.

Richardson (TX)

Hybrid

USD 144,000 - 299,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide the AntiSpam and Delivery squad for Yahoo Mail. You will mentor senior engineers, set clear goals, and drive execution across a large, distributed backend.

You will champion AI-focused development, applying AI/ML to detection, developer productivity, and reliability. You will translate business needs into technical roadmaps and collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of software engineering experience on large-scale distributed systems, with leadership experience.
4+ years of engineering management leading senior engineers.
Proven ability to own delivery and operations for a large engineering team.
Strong depth in scalable distributed systems, service reliability, and performance-sensitive backend infrastructure.
Experience in email delivery, anti-spam, anti-abuse, trust and safety systems.
Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Lead a large AntiSpam and Delivery engineering squad, accountable for execution, operations, technical quality, and team health.
Lead the team's evolution into an AI-forward software development team, raising AI fluency and championing thoughtful use of AI to strengthen anti-abuse capabilities and developer effectiveness.
Use AI to enhance how you manage, plan, execute, and track the team's work, and model that practice for your engineers.
Own the engineering roadmap for the systems that protect users from spam, phishing, fraud, and abuse, and for the infrastructure that reliably delivers billions of messages a day.
Translate business and product requirements into clear technical plans, roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Partner with engineering leaders, product, program management, security, abuse, data, and adjacent platform teams to manage interdependencies.
Guide the team through production issues, escalations, and long-term risk reduction for large-scale distributed systems.
Continuously improve engineering and operational standards, including postmortems and delivery practices.
Drive architectural modernization and cloud-native adoption, participating in design reviews and ensuring quality.
Hire, develop, and retain engineers; mentor senior engineers and managers; define roles; foster accountability and collaboration.