Senior Software Engineer - AI-Powered Email Delivery

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 266,875; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Yahoo Mail AntiSpam and Delivery Engineering powers the core intelligence and transmission infrastructure for over 220 million active users worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer (IC4), you will drive high‑volume spam detection, entity reputation, traffic shaping, and email delivery pipelines with autonomy, translating ambiguous requirements into resilient architectures and elevating team productivity through AI‑assisted engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in Java, Go, or C++.
• 2+ years designing and operating large-scale distributed server applications.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools is required.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain high-concurrency microservices in Java and Go.
• Lead architectural reviews and code quality standards across the squad.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices and LLM integration.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve team productivity.
• Drive deployments to production in cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud-native applications

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

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GitHub Copilot

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Job description

Yahoo Mail AntiSpam and Delivery Engineering powers the core intelligence and transmission infrastructure for over 220 million active users worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer (IC4), you will drive high‑volume spam detection, entity reputation, traffic shaping, and email delivery pipelines with autonomy, translating ambiguous requirements into resilient architectures and elevating team productivity through AI‑assisted engineering.