Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a leading internet company with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Developer Experience & Tools. This role involves architecting and optimizing AI-powered developer productivity tools, enhancing the engineering experience, and collaborating across teams to improve the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize developer productivity tools leveraging multiple AI tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor, Vertex AI) to provide contextual code suggestions, automated testing, and smart documentation
- Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in the developer inner-loop, transitioning manual SDLC processes into intelligent, agentic workflows
- Establish automated review systems and validation frameworks to verify, clean, and monitor the quality of AI-generated software architectures and outputs
- Define, track, and analyze key developer experience (DevEx) metrics to isolate friction points and systematically improve engineering velocity
- Take independent ownership of major phases of the SDLC and platform environments, directly impacting the day-to-day workflow of hundreds of Yahoo Mail engineers
- Collaborate with engineering leads and cross-functional teams to design, prototype, and implement elegant solutions for complex developer pain points
- Solve complex and multifaceted software problems with guidance only in highly complex, ambiguous situations
- Act as a technical role model and mentor for peers, executing high-quality code reviews and promoting platform engineering best practices
- Lead design discussions, share systemic engineering insights, and build a culture of continuous learning and AI-assisted innovation
Skills
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong core computer science fundamentals, including advanced competencies in data structures, algorithms, and modular software design
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, or Golang
- Hands-on experience integrating AI coding assistants, code generation tools, or specialized LLM agents into active development pipelines to accelerate debugging, architectural design, and code refactoring
- Experience building robust internal tools for engineering organizations, including scalable backend microservices, unified CLIs, and intuitive web interfaces
- Deep understanding of modern software development practices, design patterns, continuous integration (CI), and deployment architecture
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to lead small project teams or distinct workstreams across geographically distributed teams
- Strong technical empathy for developers and a commitment to eliminating roadblocks, delays, and friction in the software development lifecycle
- Experience deploying, fine-tuning, or engineering structured prompts for foundation models within enterprise cloud environments like Google Vertex AI
- Experience with CI/CD tools and systems tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Jenkins
- Solid experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), with a focus on GCP
- Strong familiarity with Unix/Linux development and deployment environments
- Practical understanding of platform engineering principles, developer portals, and Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
Company Overview
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.yahoo.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Yahoo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 197 in 2023, 646 in 2022, 381 in 2021, 463 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.