Software Engineer Abuse Prevention

Requisition ID 31066

As a popular destination on the Internet, Yahoo! is the target of abusive activity in its various forms including spam, phishing, harassment, and overuse. Yahoo! is at the forefront of investigating, developing and deploying measures to detect and stamp out abusive activities. Abuse prevention is a company priority at Yahoo! and proper mitigation strategies and tools are essential to the long term quality of our services. In this role, you will be part of a team that evolves existing defenses and creates new ways to thwart the abusive activities we observe.

The Abuse Prevention Team develops and manages a suite of internally deployed products and services. Some of the products are well known, like CAPTCHA. Others are not publicized by intention. The products provide in-line, near-line or off-line abuse detection, accompanied by action to prevent further abuse. We use a combination of proprietary and open-source technologies in the areas of pattern matching, rate control, image processing, machine learning, classification, clustering analysis and data management. We work in an agile development environment in 2-4 person groups using Scrum methodology.

We are looking for passionate, high-caliber engineers motivated by cutting-edge requirements related to performance, scalability and real-time adaptability at a level demanded of a very small group of developers worldwide. You will be exposed to a wide variety of Yahoo's products and services with its global user community.
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

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