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About the role
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-scale web platforms, with significant time on both front-end and back-end/platform work
- Advanced mastery of modern TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and server-side runtimes (Node.js or Bun)
- Hands-on experience with real-time data models, WebSockets, and collaborative editing (CRDTs such as Yjs or Automerge, or OT), with a solid grasp of consistency, concurrency, and failure modes
- Strong SQL and relational database (PostgreSQL) foundations, including schema evolution and access-control patterns
- A track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues in the browser (rendering, Web Vitals, memory) and on the server (latency, throughput, resource usage), using profilers, heap snapshots, and tracing
- Experience running production services: metrics, alerting, structured logging, on-call, and designing for graceful degradation
More about this role
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects hundreds of millions of people to the things they love, from finance and sports to news and entertainment. Our engineering teams build high-performance, accessible, and resilient digital experiences at scale.
Our team builds the core platform, collaborative canvas, and design-to-code infrastructure that engineers and designers across Yahoo use to create and ship product UI. We care about runtime latency, distributed consistency, and fast, reliable developer workflows. We work where modern frontend architecture, real-time collaboration, and AI-augmented developer tooling meet, and we aim to raise the engineering bar across the organization.
You're a seasoned Principal Engineer who cares deeply about how complex systems behave under load, under failure, and during high-concurrency collaboration. You're fluent across the entire surface: you can...
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