Senior Partner Data Platform Engineer

ouryahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Mail is building Data Products — externalizing our high-signal behavioral and engagement data as partner-ready APIs and data feeds. We are seeking a Partner Success Engineer to serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for driving flawless, end-to-end partner integrations.

This is not a transactional support role; it is an ownership position sitting at the intersection of engineering, data, and partnerships.

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 initial sandbox onboarding and go-live 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

Partner engineering

Solutions architecture

External API integration

REST/gRPC APIs

OAuth 2.0 / API keys

Distributed systems

Kafka / Pub/Sub

Data delivery architectures

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Yahoo Mail is building Data Products — externalizing our high-signal behavioral and engagement data as partner-ready APIs and data feeds. We are seeking a Partner Success Engineer to serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for driving flawless, end-to-end partner integrations.

This is not a transactional support role; it is an ownership position sitting at the intersection of engineering, data, and partnerships.