Software Engineer II - Search Platform
UberUnited States18 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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About The Role
The Search Platform team is responsible for the Search experience on several product surfaces at Uber, enabling millions of users to find, discover, and explore rides, food, etc. Search has played an increasingly important role in bringing Uber closer to its vision. The ideal candidate will bring extensive expertise in search infrastructure, showcasing a profound understanding of search algorithms, distributed systems, and scalability.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to play a key role in refining and optimizing our search capabilities. You will get to work on cutting edge technologies and will get to work with industry experts ranging from distributed systems to machine learning.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
The Search Platform team is responsible for the Search experience on several product surfaces at Uber, enabling millions of users to find, discover, and explore rides, food, etc. Search has played an increasingly important role in bringing Uber closer to its vision. The ideal candidate will bring extensive expertise in search infrastructure, showcasing a profound understanding of search algorithms, distributed systems, and scalability.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to play a key role in refining and optimizing our search capabilities. You will get to work on cutting edge technologies and will get to work with industry experts ranging from distributed systems to machine learning.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Design and implement new features in our search infrastructure solutions at Uber.
- Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency.
- Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, product teams and product managers to drive adoption and standardize processes, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C/C++ or similar languages.
- Experience in building large-scale distributed systems
- Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience with Apache Lucene, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Solr and other Search technologies is a plus
- Experience with highly available/fault tolerant, replicated data storage systems, large scale data processing systems or enterprise/cloud storage systems is also a strong plus
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