Sr. Software Engineer - Storage Platform

About The Role

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 include proprietary and open-source database solutions that support large scale workloads, high QoS and are dynamically scalable and reliable. Together with that we provide the infrastructure that connects online databases to various product platforms that powers business decisions at Uber.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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• Design, development, test and roll out a scalable, reliable, operable and performant storage 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 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
• You feel ownership over everything you touch. You pride yourself on efficient monitoring, strong documentation, and proper test coverage and you call something "done" only when these are in place
• You believe that you can achieve more on a team - that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement and you help others by returning the favor.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering
• 5+ years of software backend and distributed system development experience
• Strong problem solving and solid coding skills in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Go, Java, C/C++)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding or hand-on experience on distributed storage platform and/or databases, cache, datastore
• Experience developing or operating high-load distributed systems, build monitoring systems
• Experience in using and contributing to open source technologies
• Good knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents.
  
  

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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., For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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.