Platform Partner Engineer: Data APIs & Integrations

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

Job summary

Yahoo Mail is seeking a Partner Success Engineer to own end-to-end partner integrations, serving as the DRI for sandbox onboarding, go-live, and production optimization. You will ensure API contracts are met, SLAs are honored, and partners maximize value from Yahoo Mail's data platform.

You will collaborate across engineering, data, and partnerships, with a focus on high-scale API architecture, streaming pipelines, and modern developer workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on partner engineering, solutions architecture, or external API integration.
• Deep technical expertise with REST/gRPC APIs, HTTP protocols, rate limiting, authentication frameworks (OAuth 2.0, API keys), and formal data contracts.
• Proven experience working directly with enterprise partners as the primary technical point of contact for complex integrations.
• Strong background in distributed systems, high-throughput event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub), and large-scale data delivery architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex, asynchronous systems under high pressure while communicating clear status updates to non-technical 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

HTTP protocols

OAuth 2.0

Enterprise partner engineering

Distributed systems

Event streaming (Kafka Pub/Sub)

Job description

Yahoo Mail is seeking a Partner Success Engineer to own end-to-end partner integrations, serving as the DRI for sandbox onboarding, go-live, and production optimization. You will ensure API contracts are met, SLAs are honored, and partners maximize value from Yahoo Mail's data platform.

You will collaborate across engineering, data, and partnerships, with a focus on high-scale API architecture, streaming pipelines, and modern developer workflows.