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Sr. Data Engineer - Data Modeling & Governance

Yahoo · United States of America · On-site

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About the role

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

What they're looking for

  • Technical Stewardship & Mentorship: Chair data design reviews, establish organizational data modeling standards, and mentor senior data engineers across Yahoo Mail
  • Contribute to a culture: of continuous learning and growth
  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 10+ years of professional software or data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting and owning significant, enterprise-scale data models (IC5 level)
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience utilizing AI-assisted development platforms (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-driven query engines) to accelerate architectural design, SQL authoring, and pipeline optimization
  • Deep technical expertise in cloud-native distributed data architectures, data warehousing, and schema optimization at petabyte scale
More about this role

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

A Little About Us

The Yahoo Mail Data organization enables Yahoo to leverage data to power our customer’s intelligent experiences, make critical data-driven decisions and drive multiple business functions. Our team designs and governs the massive, distributed data foundation that powers experiences for hundreds of millions of active Yahoo Mail users globally. We design and build the future of how teams work with data with agentic automation across Data Engineering & Infrastructure. Our Data Platforms and Products empower Data Science & Analytics, AI/ML, Product, Marketing, Commerce, Finance and Business teams across Yahoo to turn multi-petabyte datasets into real-time consumer insights and next-generation agentic/GAI workflows and features.

We are looking for exceptional Data Engineers to join our team and help guide, innovate and evolve our Data Models & our Data Governance practices. We...

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