Senior Software Engineer - Storage Platform

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

We are looking for talented engineers to join the Storage Platform. We provide standardized, integrated and fully managed database, object storage and cache infrastructure. Our offerings support large scale workloads, high QoS and are scalable and reliable. Together with that we provide the infrastructure that connects real-time databases to the Big Data Platform that powers business decisions at Uber.

What the Candidate Will Do:

• Design, lead prototyping and development, test and roll out the next generations of our storage infrastructure at Uber, meeting high standards of performance, reliability, and usability.
• Collaborate with others, both from Storage Platform and from application engineering teams, to ensure that the infrastructure we're building works seamlessly across different storage backends and best serves application engineers.
• Mentor more junior engineers, guiding their work and supporting their professional development.
• Contribute to enhancing the team's technical and organizational culture; serve as a role model to others.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.).
• 4+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies.
• Experience coding with Go, Java, C++ or Python.
• Experience in at least one of scalable storage and databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of scalable storage and distributed systems. For example, you know the tradeoffs of different sharding and replication strategies; you can reason about data consistency in a distributed environment.
• Experience analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.

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.