Sr Manager, Software Development Engineering — Yahoo Mail Anti-Spam and Delivery

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Demonstrated interest and experience in AI, ML, or GenAI applications relevant to engineering systems, abuse detection, or developer productivity.

10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems, with significant experience leading engineering teams.

4+ years of engineering management experience leading a team of senior engineers, including experience developing tech leads or other managers.

Proven ability to own delivery and operations for a large engineering team, mitigate long-term technical risk, and deliver measurable business impact.

Strong technical depth in scalable distributed systems, service reliability, systems integration, and performance-sensitive backend infrastructure.

Experience in areas such as email delivery, anti-spam, anti-abuse, trust and safety, messaging infrastructure, networking, or similarly complex internet-scale systems.

Ability to identify technical risks early, make sound tradeoff decisions, and hold teams accountable to high standards of design quality and execution.

Experience building strong teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.

Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to keep engineering and cross-functional partners aligned on shared initiatives.

Experience leading teams responsible for anti-spam, anti-abuse, fraud prevention, or trust and safety systems.

Experience with email delivery systems, RFC-driven protocols, and networking layers.

Familiarity with public cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Experience with data mining, classification systems, ML/AI model application, or large-scale data platforms used in detection and ranking problems.

Experience improving developer experience through tooling, workflow automation, documentation standards, or SDLC improvements.

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.

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