Sr Software Engineer -Yahoo Mail Antispam Team

Company: Quality Control Specialist - Pest Control
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: June 3, 2025

Job Description:

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.
About us
Yahoo Mail AntiSpam Engineering: The Yahoo Mail Antispam team develops and maintains high-performing systems that reliably protect our users from spam, phishing, fraud, and abuse with advanced ML/AI algorithms. These systems require extreme reliability, resilience, and performance. We are tackling some of the toughest challenges in architecture design, algorithm development, and data engineering. There are numerous opportunities to innovate in all these areas.
Qualifications

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• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with a strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, OS, and Networking
  
• 5+ years experience in software development with Go, Java, and/or C++
  
• 2+ years experience in owning and designing components of large-scale systems
  
• Experience in algorithm design and ML/AI
  
• Experience with public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS)
  
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues in cloud environments
  
• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Perl, and/or Ruby
  
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers in the team
  
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and initiative
  
  Preferred Qualifications
  
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  • Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Spark
    
  • Previous exposure to anti-spam or anti-abuse engineering
    
  • Familiarity with data mining, text processing, and classification algorithms
    
  • Proficiency in statistical methods and exploratory data analysis
    
  • Ability to balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
    
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and management
    
  • Lead projects and mentor team members
    
  • Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning, estimating, daily standups, and retrospectives
    
  • Collaborate effectively with engineers and cross-functional teams
    
  • Recommend alternative approaches and adopt new technologies to achieve goals
    
    Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other protected categories. We are committed to accessibility and providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities. Please submit requests via the Accommodation Request Form or call the provided contact numbers.
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