Hybrid Partner Success Engineer, Data Platform & APIs

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. invites a Partner Success Engineer (Finance) to own end-to-end partner integrations within Yahoo Mail's data platform. You will be DRI for API contracts, SLAs, and data feeds, working across engineering, data, and partnerships to maximize partner value.

You will collaborate with enterprise teams to harden APIs, monitor data health, and translate partner requirements into technical specs, while maintaining developer docs and playbooks in a fast-paced micro-squad environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with partner engineering or API integrations.
• Experience with REST/gRPC, HTTP, OAuth 2.0, API keys, and data contracts.
• Direct collaboration with enterprise partners as technical lead.
• Background in distributed systems and high-throughput streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Ability to debug asynchronous systems under pressure and report status to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of contact and DRI for technical partner success, from sandbox onboarding to production optimization.
• Maintain API reliability, performance, latency, uptime, and strict SLA compliance across all external data feeds and integrations.
• Establish proactive monitoring, logging, and automated alerting for data product health to resolve integration issues before they impact partners.
• Translate complex partner requirements and integration edge cases into actionable technical specifications and internal roadmap items.
• Partner with core engineering teams to harden APIs, optimize streaming pipelines, and refine data contracts based on production feedback.
• Maintain developer documentation, integration playbooks, architecture diagrams, and escalation paths.

Skills

REST/gRPC APIs

OAuth 2.0

Enterprise partnerships

Distributed systems

Debugging in production

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

API gateway

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. invites a Partner Success Engineer (Finance) to own end-to-end partner integrations within Yahoo Mail's data platform. You will be DRI for API contracts, SLAs, and data feeds, working across engineering, data, and partnerships to maximize partner value.

You will collaborate with enterprise teams to harden APIs, monitor data health, and translate partner requirements into technical specs, while maintaining developer docs and playbooks in a fast-paced micro-squad environment.