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Uber

Software Engineer II - Backend

On site

Seattle, United states

$ 185,500 /year

Junior

Full Time

24-09-2025

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Skills

Python Java Go Monitoring Programming

Job Specifications

About The Role

The Core Platform Foundations team owns defining, monitoring, and controlling operations for the infrastructure that supports Uber's virtual computing environments. We are the lowest software layer abstracting the underlying fleet of hosts whether on prem or on the cloud, and as such we are the guardians of quality and security of the production host. The software that this team owns impacts all of Uber's production fleet - quality, security, and operational mindedness are highly valued, as well as compassion for the developer experience.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

Driving initiatives and change between stakeholder platforms and cloud providers including ingesting new host types, and improving availability and performance of compute instances - VMs & BMs
Designing and implementing features and tooling for availability, reliability, and security at the host infrastructure layer
Designing and implementing features and tooling for micro and macro failures at the compute layer

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of backend software engineering experience and Bachelor degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related field of study.
Experience in backend development
Operational experience of production / live services
Expertise in one or more object-oriented programming languages (Go, Java, Python).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies.
Experience with large-scale, distributed systems development
Experience working with cloud computing environments
Experience with or just fearless curiosity to dive into low level systems

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. 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.

About the Company

We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Ube... Know more