Job Specifications
About The Role
The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will define a holistic vision and build deep, granular insights of our technology infrastructure consumption along with cost accountability. You'll build and enhance our capacity analytics products that help drive our cost-to-serve efficiency programs.
In this role you will work closely with a highly cross-functional team, including platform teams, service owners, finance and various leaders building a broad understanding of Uber's consumption of resources across its entire tech stack, identify cost-savings opportunities and develop software guiding key business decisions to grow Uber's infrastructure in the cloud while driving down costs.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
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Work with teams across Uber to identify their capacity needs, help scale services and platforms within our capacity budget and find opportunities to make Uber more efficient.
You will build products and services that are highly available and scalable to serve our customers.
As a backend engineer, you will architect, design, and build essential analytics infrastructure providing visibility and actionability into engineering spend for the entire organization.
You will collaborate with other teammates to maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient.
Write clear documentation so that other engineers can partner to contribute and deliver.
Basic Qualifications
BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
5+ years of experience building distributed systems and big data solutions.
Proficient in the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Javascript. Good scripting skills and the ability to pick up new ones.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of fullstack development.
Background in building high-performance, scalable, distributed systems.
Backend experience with data engineering, data pipelines, big data systems, data science, SQL, analytics.
Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.
Experience with a relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Grit, drive and a strong sense of ownership coupled with an appetite for collaboration!
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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., For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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.