Senior Software Engineer, DevEx

Yahoo Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Great 401k

Backup childcare

Education stipends

Much more

Job summary

Yahoo Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to advance our centralized developer experience (DX) platform. You will own CI/CD initiatives, automate pipelines, manage artifacts, and drive platform tooling across squads.

You’ll work with AI-assisted development tools and modern GitOps practices to accelerate deployments while ensuring production correctness and security. The role offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software development or platform engineering experience, with a focus on CI/CD pipeline design and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise with enterprise CI/CD platforms and writing reusable workflow modules.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, debugging, and documentation.
• Experience with artifact management platforms and release promotion patterns.
• Ability to independently own and deliver squad-level software features or migrations.
• Strong technical writing skills for creating clear developer playbooks, API documentation, and migration guides.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver key components of developer platform initiatives across CI/CD pipeline modernization, artifact management, developer tooling, and ArgoCD rollouts.
• Utilize AI pair-programming and automation tools to generate, refactor, and test CI/CD assets.
• Inspect, validate, and troubleshoot AI-assisted configurations and migrations for production correctness and security.
• Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates, build workflows, and developer documentation.
• Support artifact publishing/consumption and CI compute runner optimization.
• Serve as primary technical contact for application squads during platform rollouts.
• Instrument pipeline automation with telemetry and monitor time-to-green, flakiness, and reliability trends.

Skills

Technical writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Artifactory

ArgoCD

Job description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

The Central Tech Developer Experience (DX) team builds and operates the core platform infrastructure that powers software delivery across Yahoo. We own the overarching CI/CD ecosystem, artifact repositories (Artifactory), release pipelines, and GitOps deployment engines (ArgoCD). Operating with a product-first mindset, our squad builds enterprise golden paths, reduces developer friction, and deploys AI-augmented automation workflows to eliminate operational toil for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Platform Initiative Execution: Own and deliver key components of developer platform initiatives across CI/CD pipeline modernization, artifact management, developer tooling, and company-wide ArgoCD GitOps rollouts.
• AI-Augmented Engineering Workflows: Utilize AI pair-programming and automation tools (such as GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock) to rapidly generate, refactor, and test reusable CI/CD actions, deployment manifests, and platform scripts.
• Automated Config Validation & Triage: Inspect, validate, and troubleshoot AI-assisted or agent-generated platform configurations and exception queues, ensuring automated pipeline migrations meet production correctness and security standards.
• Golden Path & Paved Road Delivery: Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates, standardized build workflows, and clear developer documentation that make approved golden paths easy for application squads to adopt.
• Artifact & Infrastructure Support: Support artifact publish/consume patterns (Artifactory, container registries), assist with CI compute runner optimization, and resolve complex pipeline break/fix issues.
• Developer Enablement & Adoption: Serve as a primary technical contact for application squads through platform rollouts—running office hours, guiding migration steps, and gathering feedback to iterate on platform tooling.
• Platform Quality & Observability: Instrument pipeline automation with telemetry, monitoring time-to-green metrics, build flakiness, and reliability trends to drive continuous platform improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software development or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on CI/CD pipeline design and troubleshooting (IC4 level).
• Hands-on expertise with enterprise CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and writing reusable workflow modules.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM coding assistants) to accelerate code generation, debugging, and documentation.
• Experience working with artifact management platforms (e.g., Artifactory) and release promotion patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver squad-level software features, technical migrations, or internal tools.
• Strong technical writing skills for creating clear developer playbooks, API documentation, and migration guides.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with GitOps deployment frameworks (e.g., ArgoCD), including repository structuring, environment promotion workflows, and secrets management.
• Experience participating in evaluation loops or validation checks for automated/agentic AI tooling operating on developer infrastructure.
• Proven experience building custom platform scripts or tools against enterprise developer APIs (GitHub REST/GraphQL APIs, Artifactory APIs).
• Practical familiarity with security-minded platform practices, including least-privilege secrets management and pipeline security scanning.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in‑person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non‑disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity.

Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions.

• healthcare
• a great 401k
• backup childcare
• education stipends
• much (much) more

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.