Full-Stack Security Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Cloud

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Champaign (IL); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 231,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Security Platforms team, building scalable security platform features in Java, Go, and JavaScript/Node while leveraging AI-assisted development tools.

You will work across AWS/GCP, containers (Kubernetes/Docker), and open-source security practices to deliver production-ready code, participate in reviews, and help safeguard billions of users.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java with Go and/or JavaScript/Node experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate tasks.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, UNIX/Linux, and web APIs.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP and relational databases (SQL).

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design, and build scalable security platform features and microservices in Java, Go, and JavaScript/Node to enhance Yahoo's resilience against threat actors.
• Leverage Yahoo approved AI development tools to accelerate code implementation, write comprehensive unit/functional tests, and refactor security infrastructure.
• Apply AI-driven diagnostics and automated static analysis to triage open-source vulnerability reports, remediate security flaws, and streamline routine code maintenance.
• Critically evaluate and validate AI-generated code outputs and test cases to ensure strict compliance with Yahoo security standards, performance benchmarks, and memory safety.
• Deliver clean, performant, and production-ready code with minimal guidance while actively participating in code reviews, technical planning, and agile story estimation.
• Troubleshoot complex software failures and operational issues across distributed Linux and public cloud environments (AWS/GCP), conducting root-cause analyses to prevent recurrence.
• Proactively identify manual engineering friction points and implement AI-assisted workflows or automation scripts to scale platform operations.
• Collaborate closely with security architects, product managers, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate defined technical security requirements into reliable operational solutions.

Skills

Java

Go

JavaScript/Node

AI tools

UNIX/Linux

AWS/GCP

SQL

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Job description

Yahoo is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Security Platforms team, building scalable security platform features in Java, Go, and JavaScript/Node while leveraging AI-assisted development tools.

You will work across AWS/GCP, containers (Kubernetes/Docker), and open-source security practices to deliver production-ready code, participate in reviews, and help safeguard billions of users.