Principal Software Engineer - JR0024332_TX

$143,625 - $299,375/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Richardson, TX

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Richardson, TX

About the position

The Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo Holdings Inc. is responsible for designing and building large-scale distributed systems that handle petabytes of data. This role involves providing technical leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the reliability and performance of systems in a 24/7 production environment. The engineer will work on the complete redesign of the Mail Backend Storage System, focusing on security, availability, and cost reduction through innovative algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Designing & building large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams & stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions
• Conducting code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices
• Implementing best practices and ensuring code quality
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Software development experience in OOP languages such as Java, C , or similar
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform
• Familiar with designing and developing high performing and complex server applications
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world
• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Nice-to-haves

• 8 years Software development experience in API development
• Fast learner, who can quickly come up to speed with different technologies & troubleshoot issues
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication/presentation skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Knowledge and operational experience running large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with cloud native application development and architecture, preferably in AWS or GCP
• Experience with test-driven development

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program