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Sr Staff Engineer

POSTED ON 4/23/2025 AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/10/2025
Uber Aarhus, Central Denmark Region Full Time
What The Candidate Will Do

  • Architect and evolve backend infrastructure to support Uber's growing workloads, including deployment engines, autoscalers, and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Lead safe deployment and rollback automation across stateless, stateful, and batch workloads, improving resilience and developer efficiency.
  • Improve infrastructure security and compliance, including encryption-at-rest, ransomware mitigation, and cloud security best practices.
  • Advance Uber's modernization efforts, including Kubernetes migration, unified workload platforms, and PaaS improvements.
  • Optimize Uber's infrastructure efficiency, focusing on ARM adoption, autoscaling enhancements, and cost-effective compute allocation.
  • Mentor engineers and drive technical strategy, ensuring Uber's backend infrastructure remains cutting-edge, reliable, and scalable.

Basic Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in backend software development with distributed systems, infrastructure, or cloud platforms.
  • Strong expertise in Go, Java, or similar backend languages, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and high-scale systems.
  • Experience driving large-scale system modernization, performance optimizations, and deployment safety improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing and implementing highly available, efficient, and secure cloud-native architectures.
  • Deep understanding of safe deployment strategies, workload automation, and resilience engineering.
  • Proven expertise in scaling autoscaling solutions, ARM adoption, hybrid cloud, or GPU support for ML workloads.
  • Ability to lead large technical initiatives and drive cross-team collaboration across platform, security, and infrastructure teams.

If You Want to Find Out More

For a deeper dive into some of the technologies and infrastructure innovations at Uber, check out the following resources:

  • CPU Scaling: Vertical CPU Scaling - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/vertical-cpu-scaling
  • CPU Throttling: Avoiding CPU Throttling in a Containerized Environment - https://eng.uber.com/avoiding-cpu-throttling-in-a-containerized-environment/
  • uBuild: Fast and Safe Building of Thousands of Container Images - https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/ubuild-fast-and-safe-building-of-thousands-of-container-images
  • Cinnamon:
  • Using Century-Old Tech to Build a Mean Load Shedder - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/cinnamon-using-century-old-tech-to-build-a-mean-load-shedder
  • PID Controller for Cinnamon - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/pid-controller-for-cinnamon
  • Cinnamon Auto-Tuner: Adaptive Concurrency in the Wild - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/cinnamon-auto-tuner-adaptive-concurrency-in-the-wild
  • Unified Config: How We Unified Configuration Distribution Across Systems at Uber - https://www.uber.com/en-DK/blog/how-we-unified-configuration-distribution-across-systems-at-uber/
  • Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud - https://www.uber.com/en-DK/blog/up-portable-microservices-ready-for-the-cloud/
  • Continuous Deployment (CD): Continuous Deployment at Uber - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/continuous-deployment
  • Odin:
  • Stateful Platform - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/odin-stateful-platform/
  • The Accounter - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/the-accounter
  • INCA: Deduping and Storing Images at Uber Eats - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/deduping-and-storing-images-at-uber-eats/
  • ARM:
  • Adopting ARM at Scale: Bootstrapping Infrastructure - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/adopting-arm-at-scale-bootstrapping-infrastructure
  • Adopting ARM at Scale: Transitioning to a Multi-Architecture Environment - https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/adopting-arm-at-scale-transitioning-to-a-multi-architecture-environment

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