It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.
When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries of all types within all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Yahoo one of the safest places on the Internet.
We are the information security team at Yahoo; known as "The Paranoids".
As part of the Paranoids Forensics and Incident Response Operations Team (FIRE), we protect Yahoo and its users from dedicated adversaries, working on the front lines monitoring for, hunting for, and responding to threats, we ensure that our users and company are kept safe.
You are a highly motivated security analyst who is available to work between 13:00 - 01:00 GMT Friday through Monday, and will use Yahoo internal tools and other systems to detect and respond to security events. You are interested in protecting sensitive corporate and user data from unauthorized access at Internet scale and applying advanced technical, behavioral, and investigative solutions to find evil, ensuring that Yahoo data remains secure.
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html
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Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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