Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Email Delivery

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 128,250 - 266,875; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (IC4) for the Yahoo Mail AntiSpam and Delivery Engineering team, focusing on high-concurrency, distributed microservices in Java and Go.

You will translate ambiguous requirements into resilient architectures, mentor peers, and champion AI-assisted engineering practices, impacting the reliability of Yahoo Mail's infrastructure and scale. The role offers hybrid work options and opportunities to influence production systems used by hundreds

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong fluency in Java, Go, or C++ (depth in Java is strongly preferred).
• 2+ years of experience designing, owning, and operating components of large-scale distributed server applications in production.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain high-concurrency, distributed microservices in Java and Go that meet stringent SLA, reliability, and security constraints.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices on the team, leveraging tools like Claude, GitHub Copilot and Cursor to accelerate feature implementation, code refactoring, and automated test suite creation.
• Integrate agentic AI workflows and LLM capabilities to enhance real-time spam detection models, abuse pattern recognition, and automated root-cause diagnostics.
• Lead technical initiatives across the squad, driving architecture reviews, code quality standards, and continuous deployment to production.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and telemetry monitoring across cloud-native (GCP) and hybrid environments.
• Evaluate emerging AI engineering tools and agentic frameworks, recommending safe, effective ways to modernize engineering workflows and eliminate repetitive manual tasks.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a strong culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaborative problem-solving.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

AI-assisted engineering

Cloud

Mentoring

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Tools

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

GCP

AWS

Kafka

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (IC4) for the Yahoo Mail AntiSpam and Delivery Engineering team, focusing on high-concurrency, distributed microservices in Java and Go.

You will translate ambiguous requirements into resilient architectures, mentor peers, and champion AI-assisted engineering practices, impacting the reliability of Yahoo Mail's infrastructure and scale. The role offers hybrid work options and opportunities to influence production systems used by hundreds