About the Role
In this role, you will be instrumental in helping us build and extend the automated test/benchmark platform to increase decision speed, find opportunities for optimization and increase reliability. This platform's goal also is to ensure performance at scale, detect anomalies in our distributed fleet across multiple hardware configurations and deployment types.
Our team consists of a healthy combination of both junior and senior engineers with a broad range of experiences across the industry. We value ideas over hierarchy, always improving, getting things done through code and having a measurable impact on the business.
What the Candidate Will Do
Design, build, support, and continuously improve the automation suite that enables qualification, validation and benchmarking of new hardware shapes, components and software changes that might affect overall application performance, in the cloud, and on prem
Improve automation of controlled testing pipelines
Enable efficient and effective collection and storage of data output
Enable efficient and accurate A/B testing and results analysis
Generally, devise and build solutions that drive impactful decisions through data availability and analysis
Solicit and provide feature suggestions into our software platform that drive quality and efficiency
Contribute to planning, design, and architecture of our performance tuning and observability platforms in support of server fleet reliability, and cloud expansion efforts
Own, manage and execute program goals, communicating regularly with key peers, stakeholders, TPMs, and systems/hardware engineers to drive clarity and improvement in the platform and tools
Basic Qualifications
BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, ?r equivalent industry experience
Background in multiple programming languages, e.g Go, Python, Java etc.
Experience building quality software using best practices when developing, testing, and deploying code (e.g canary testing, release scheduling, versioning, etc), and empathetically helping/driving peers to integrate and uphold standards
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with microservices and cluster management/orchestration
Experience with both front end (e.g HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and back end development (e.g MySQL)
Experience in hardware health monitoring solutions - building and/or deploying them
Solid understanding of server hardware at scale: data center network fundamentals, OS imaging, provisioning, distribution, and configuration deployment at a large scale
Automate everything bias: You should have an instinct and intuition to automate whatever you can and improve the efficiency of our processes
Collaboration bias: you should have an inherent drive to collaborate, both within the team and across orgs
Strong sense of ownership, passion, curiosity and initiative to fix problems and optimize systems that are both inside and outside your area of responsibility
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 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 .
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