About the Role
We are seeking a Software Engineer where you will be pivotal in developing, deploying, and scaling backend services and solutions that drive Uber's user-facing products, downstream services, and internal infrastructure tools. You'll work with cross-functional teams to ensure that Uber's systems are not only highly reliable but also scalable to support our global customer base of over 100 million+ users.
About the Team:
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining an industry-leading goal-seeking repair engine designed to ensure tenant health across instances and maintain optimal host utilization. This sophisticated system not only continuously monitors and heals infrastructure but also supports extensibility by enabling labor services to be pluggable, paving the way for the open sourcing of the Allocation Engine.
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We play a critical role in defining the authoritative signal for workload tenant health and performance, ensuring workloads operate within their declared SLAs. This serves as the key contract between product and platform: while the platform has the freedom to implement infrastructural changes, it must always honor the SLA requirements. Our work results in a unified repair engine that spans all layers of the stack, including physical networking.
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Design, development, test and roll out a scalable, reliable, operable and performant storage and real-time streaming platform features, improvements, frameworks, ecosystems.
- Improve reliability, efficiency through design and automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitoring
- Engage and support stakeholders and collaborate across teams to ensure that the real-time streaming and storage platform and ecosystem we're building works seamlessly across different storage backends and best serves application engineers.
- Support your fellow teammates, review the team's technical design, code, and documentation
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar field
- 3+ years of software backend and distributed system development experience
- Strong problem solving and solid coding skills in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Java, C/C++, Python)
- Good verbal and written communication skills
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Understanding or hand-on experience on real-time streaming, databases and search products
- Experience developing or operating high-load distributed systems, build monitoring systems
- Good knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$158,000 per year - USD$175,500 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$158,000 per year - USD$175,500 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$158,000 per year - USD$175,500 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.