Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a technology company connecting its brands and partners with audiences through large-scale digital platforms. The Senior Software Engineer, DevEx will build and operate developer platform infrastructure, focusing on CI/CD modernization, artifact management, GitOps deployments, AI-augmented engineering workflows, and developer enablement. The role also supports platform reliability, observability, migrations, and troubleshooting for application engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- **Platform Initiative Execution:** Own and deliver key components of developer platform initiatives across CI/CD pipeline modernization, artifact management, developer tooling, and company-wide ArgoCD GitOps rollouts
- **AI-Augmented Engineering Workflows:** Utilize AI pair-programming and automation tools (such as GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock) to rapidly generate, refactor, and test reusable CI/CD actions, deployment manifests, and platform scripts
- **Automated Config Validation & Triage:** Inspect, validate, and troubleshoot AI-assisted or agent-generated platform configurations and exception queues, ensuring automated pipeline migrations meet production correctness and security standards
- **Golden Path & Paved Road Delivery:** Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates, standardized build workflows, and clear developer documentation that make approved golden paths easy for application squads to adopt
- **Artifact & Infrastructure Support:** Support artifact publish/consume patterns (Artifactory, container registries), assist with CI compute runner optimization, and resolve complex pipeline break/fix issues
- **Developer Enablement & Adoption:** Serve as a primary technical contact for application squads through platform rollouts—running office hours, guiding migration steps, and gathering feedback to iterate on platform tooling
- **Platform Quality & Observability:** Instrument pipeline automation with telemetry, monitoring time-to-green metrics, build flakiness, and reliability trends to drive continuous platform improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of professional software development or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on CI/CD pipeline design and troubleshooting (IC4 level)
- Hands-on expertise with enterprise CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and writing reusable workflow modules
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM coding assistants) to accelerate code generation, debugging, and documentation
- Experience working with artifact management platforms (e.g., Artifactory) and release promotion patterns
- Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver squad-level software features, technical migrations, or internal tools
- Strong technical writing skills for creating clear developer playbooks, API documentation, and migration guides
- Hands-on experience with GitOps deployment frameworks (e.g., ArgoCD), including repository structuring, environment promotion workflows, and secrets management
- Experience participating in evaluation loops or validation checks for automated/agentic AI tooling operating on developer infrastructure
- Proven experience building custom platform scripts or tools against enterprise developer APIs (GitHub REST/GraphQL APIs, Artifactory APIs)
- Practical familiarity with security-minded platform practices, including least-privilege secrets management and pipeline security scanning
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work options
- Discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
- 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship
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