Staff Software Engineer - Network Platform

Company: Uber
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: May 4, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description About the Role Uber is looking for a mature technical leader to lead a team within our Network Platform Infrastructure group. As a Staff Engineer within Infrastructure, you will have a significant impact on the evolution of Uber's backend teams and architecture. Our mission is to make transportation as reliable as running water, and we need people who are excited to build a diligent foundation that supports that vision. Staff engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models but also approachable leaders with vision within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely exciting projects. We are looking for someone with a passion for architecting, building and scaling highly-available, high-demand systems that support millions of users every day. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced engineer who is collaborative, has a healthy sense of curiosity, and acts with a responsibility to join Uber, work with hardworking people across the board and help improve our next generation infrastructure systems, scaling it to the next level. What You'll Do * Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the next generations of our infrastructure at Uber. * Collaborate with others, from hardworking team members within your group, through smart technologists in other functions like machine learning, AI, or data science, to responsible leaders across Uber. * Build up strong relationships with people in the organization, meaningfully collaborating, and building trust. * Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects. * See the big picture and identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and deliver high demonstrate solutions on these at the group and organization level. * Up the bar on sustainable engineering by improving standard methodologies, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring. * Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our hardworking team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward. Basic Qualifications * Experience with Java, Go or C++ (bonus points for more than one). * Proficiency in Linux. * Full-stack infrastructure knowledge. * You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. If you enjoy discussing anything from kernels to datacenters and you measure the success of your projects in "nines," then we want you on the team. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents. * Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers. * Undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications * You have a proven record of building and productionizing highly reliable infrastructure at scale. * 10+ years of relevant engineering experience. * "Service Mash Staff role:" Deep knowledge of gRPC or working experience with gRPC * You can collaborate well with several product engineering teams to articulate requirements and system design. * Ability to lead and guide excellent engineering teams. * Ability to assess new technologies and make pragmatic choices that help guide us towards a long-term vision. * Open, curious, and bold approach to problem-solving and striving for the best solution. * Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering standard methodologies like coding, testing, or monitoring.

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