Software Engineer

- What the Candidate Will Do -

You will help build large scale software solutions to ensure Uber that are reliable and efficient - in a team to people that want you to grow and succeed. Examples of what it means to be an engineer in our team:

• Design reliable solutions to solve business use cases in a highly distributed system.
• Implement solutions in Go with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage - and run it in production.
• Actively drive collaboration across multiple teams to create alignment and progress.
• Take active part in code change peer-reviews to ensure quality and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Contribute to engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring and on-call practices.
• Own part of the team's charter and through that help setting longer term direction for the team.

- Basic Qualifications -

A typical engineer in our team fits the following profile. We expect you to have similar traits.

• Self driven, team first, strong ownership.
• 4 years of professional software development experience
• BS, MS or PhD degree in computer science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Background in multiple programming languages, e.g., Go, Java, Python, etc.
• Attention to detail, particularly around software engineering fundamentals, testing methodologies, and quality.
• Good verbal and written communication skills. Experience writing design. documents,

- Preferred Qualifications -

• Experience building large distributed systems
• Experience with running critical systems in production, how to monitor them and handle incidents.
• Experience with containerization software such as Kubernetes or Docker.
• Experience with database and storage technologies and know the tradeoffs between them
• Comfortable working with on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
• Experience with Linux development