Principal/Staff Software Engineer - Developer Efficiency and Tools

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.

Yahoo Mail has an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Developer Efficiency and Tools team. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing tools, frameworks and services which will enable developers to build a high quality product at scale without compromising on quality, velocity, and coding standards.

Responsibilities:

• Build tools that improve engineer productivity by 10× using code assistance, automated reviews, and context-aware documentation.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems in the area of Developer productivity apps and Developer workflows.
• Define and Tracking productivity metrics to encourage engineering efficiency and a high-performance culture.
• Analyze metrics at both team and individual level: velocity, refactoring frequency, bug resolution times—through reporting dashboards
• Work collaboratively to design, implement and evolve high quality automation frameworks for functional and non-functional testing and design of visualization and reporting dashboards for monitoring and enabling data based decisions
• Develop tools or implement features in existing tools for shortening the development cycle
• Work with team members on detailed and constructive design and code reviews
• Collaborate with the broader engineering team on design or architectural decisions
• Be a role model for showcasing best practices, processes and culture to help Engineering teams improve their productivity
• Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
• Define engineering tooling roadmap

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of engineering experience including experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
• Have extensive experience in building Developer productivity tools, metrics and dashboards.
• Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
• Building AI based applications/workflows using LLMs with concepts like RAG and Agentic AI development.
• Working knowledge of virtualization, Container technologies, Storage / database / network.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including quickly getting up to speed with new technologies.
• Building, maintaining and supporting infrastructure.

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.