ouryahoo
Full Stack Engineer II, Platforms
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
- for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/yr and will vary depending on
- Posted
- 2026-07-23
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Engineering
- Healthcare
Benefits & Perks
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Requirements
5+ years of hands-on software development experience building scalable applications or platform services.
Proven experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate software feature implementation, testing, or debugging workflows.
Core understanding of object-oriented design, distributed systems, networking fundamentals, web service APIs, and UNIX/Linux environments.
Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and relational databases (SQL).
Practical knowledge of web and network security concepts, including open-source vulnerability remediation.
Focus on operational excellence, software quality, and security engineering impact within a collaborative agile squad.
Responsibilities
Ideate, design, and build scalable security platform features and microservices in Java, Go, and JavaScript/Node to enhance Yahoo's resilience against threat actors.
Leverage Yahoo approved AI development tools to accelerate code implementation, write comprehensive unit/functional tests, and refactor security infrastructure.
Apply AI-driven diagnostics and automated static analysis to triage open-source vulnerability reports, remediate security flaws, and streamline routine code maintenance.
Critically evaluate and validate AI-generated code outputs and test cases to ensure strict compliance with Yahoo security standards, performance benchmarks, and memory safety.
Deliver clean, performant, and production-ready code with minimal guidance while actively participating in code reviews, technical planning, and agile story estimation.
Troubleshoot complex software failures and operational issues across distributed Linux and public cloud environments (AWS/GCP), conducting root-cause analyses to prevent recurrence.
About the Company
The Security Platforms team enables Yahoo technology teams to develop, deploy, and operate products efficiently and reliably on an integrated, scalable, and secure platform. Security Platform solutions enable and accelerate Yahoo's strategic initiatives by providing defense-in-depth security capabilities from the ground up. We foster an AI-augmented engineering culture where continuous learning, automation, and continuous delivery empower engineers to protect millions of users world-wide.