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".
About the Role
Join The Paranoids, Yahoo’s elite cybersecurity team. We’re seeking an early-career Software Engineer with a strong foundation in programming and a drive to secure the digital frontier.
As part of this collaborative team, you'll play an important role in advancing our secure software development life cycle (SDLC) practices. You’ll participate in adapting and customizing open-source software to address evolving security risks.
What You'll Do
Collaborate with security engineers and architects to integrate security best practices into the SDLC.
Develop and maintain our backend solutions and internal tools to support Yahoo's SDLC process.
Contribute to automation frameworks and security tools to identify vulnerabilities and promote secure-by-default practices.
Learn and apply secure coding standards while leveraging available mentoring and training opportunities.
Respond to evolving security risks by participating in the adaptation and customization of open-source software.
Who You Are
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
1-3 years of professional experience with Golang, including familiarity with standard libraries and concurrency patterns.
Demonstrated eagerness to collaborate and learn within a multidisciplinary, globally distributed team.
Enthusiasm for problem-solving, comfort with backend services, and an interest in secure system design.
A foundational understanding of software development principles: version control, CI/CD, testing, and debugging.
Excellent communication skills and a commitment to continuous learning.
Bonus Points
Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure, or automation tooling.
Experience with SDLC security practices, code scanning, or secure code review.
Why The Paranoids?
You’ll join a collaborative group of security-minded engineers who believe that securing billions of user experiences starts with innovative, secure software. At Yahoo, your work makes a difference, and your growth is supported at every step.
If you’re excited to build secure systems at scale and ignite your career in cybersecurity, we want to meet you!
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) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
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Yahoo Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office
The EXO Building, North Wall Quay 1 Ireland , Dublin, Ireland, D01 W5Y2
