Chief Architect

Job description

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. A Little About Us: Yahoo Mail is the second largest email provider in the world, serving hundreds of millions of users at staggering scale. We are undergoing a massive Digital Transformation, moving toward an AI-native and Agentic future. This role is the technical North Star for that journey, defining how we architect systems that are not just "cloud-native," but "AI-first." Responsibilities: Strategic Architecture & AI Transformation: Own the 3–5 year vision for Yahoo Mail. Lead the transition from deterministic legacy systems to non-deterministic, agentic architectures, ensuring that AI is woven into the fabric of our storage, search, and delivery layers. Internet-Scale Systems Design: Architect distributed systems handling billions of daily events. Optimize high-scale data pipelines to support real-time RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and agentic reasoning at the edge. AI-Augmented...