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About the team
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining an industry-leading goal-seeking repair engine designed to ensure tenant health across instances and maintain optimal host utilization. This sophisticated system not only continuously monitors and heals infrastructure but also supports extensibility by enabling labor services to be pluggable, paving the way for the open sourcing of the Allocation Engine.
We play a critical role in defining the authoritative signal for workload tenant health and performance, ensuring workloads operate within their declared SLAs. This serves as the key contract between product and platform: while the platform has the freedom to implement infrastructural changes, it must always honor the SLA requirements. Our work results in a unified repair engine that spans all layers of the stack, including physical networking.
The repair engine is the cornerstone of maintaining steady-state health and serves as the gatekeeper for granting permissions to other systems making changes. At its core, our team is the guardian of tenant health, ensuring a reliable and resilient platform for all workloads.
About the Role
Software engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are pragmatic technologists able to craft scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also empathic thought leaders within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering exciting projects!
We are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our Service Mesh team, dedicated to shaping the future of L4/L7 layer networking and service mesh infrastructure, achieving unprecedented levels of reliability, scalability that meets the need for Uber rapidly growing global businesses.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- Design, develop, and maintain the service mesh infrastructure (discovery, traffic management, routing) to ensure high reliability and scalability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Compute, Foundations, Deployment, Cloud, SRE, Storage, and Product teams), design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance L7/L4 layer networking solutions, through sophisticated experiments
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely resolution of critical incidents and ensure system availability.
- Conduct in-depth debugging and troubleshooting of networking issues, both proactively and reactively.
- Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting systems to enhance system reliability.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in networking, service mesh, and cloud-native architectures.
Basic Qualifications
- You have a proven record of building and productionizing highly reliable infrastructure at scale.
- 8 years of relevant engineering experience, specifically working on backend services' networking stack or building infrastructure platform-as-a-service services
- Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C .
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
- Experience to lead and guide excellent engineering teams.
- Experience in designing & developing large scale distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience withKubernetes (k8s), Istio service mesh and Envoyis highly desirable.
- A bonus if you are a domain expert in the field of network infrastructure, public cloud, compute, storage, networking, containers/orchestration, observability.
- A solid understanding of designing based on metrics to achieve business objectives
- Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
- You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 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 [](;br>
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing [this form](;br>
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining an industry-leading goal-seeking repair engine designed to ensure tenant health across instances and maintain optimal host utilization. This sophisticated system not only continuously monitors and heals infrastructure but also supports extensibility by enabling labor services to be pluggable, paving the way for the open sourcing of the Allocation Engine.
We play a critical role in defining the authoritative signal for workload tenant health and performance, ensuring workloads operate within their declared SLAs. This serves as the key contract between product and platform: while the platform has the freedom to implement infrastructural changes, it must always honor the SLA requirements. Our work results in a unified repair engine that spans all layers of the stack, including physical networking.
The repair engine is the cornerstone of maintaining steady-state health and serves as the gatekeeper for granting permissions to other systems making changes. At its core, our team is the guardian of tenant health, ensuring a reliable and resilient platform for all workloads.
About the Role
Software engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are pragmatic technologists able to craft scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also empathic thought leaders within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering exciting projects!
We are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our Service Mesh team, dedicated to shaping the future of L4/L7 layer networking and service mesh infrastructure, achieving unprecedented levels of reliability, scalability that meets the need for Uber rapidly growing global businesses.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- Design, develop, and maintain the service mesh infrastructure (discovery, traffic management, routing) to ensure high reliability and scalability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Compute, Foundations, Deployment, Cloud, SRE, Storage, and Product teams), design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance L7/L4 layer networking solutions, through sophisticated experiments
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely resolution of critical incidents and ensure system availability.
- Conduct in-depth debugging and troubleshooting of networking issues, both proactively and reactively.
- Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting systems to enhance system reliability.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in networking, service mesh, and cloud-native architectures.
Basic Qualifications
- You have a proven record of building and productionizing highly reliable infrastructure at scale.
- 8 years of relevant engineering experience, specifically working on backend services' networking stack or building infrastructure platform-as-a-service services
- Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C .
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
- Experience to lead and guide excellent engineering teams.
- Experience in designing & developing large scale distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience withKubernetes (k8s), Istio service mesh and Envoyis highly desirable.
- A bonus if you are a domain expert in the field of network infrastructure, public cloud, compute, storage, networking, containers/orchestration, observability.
- A solid understanding of designing based on metrics to achieve business objectives
- Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
- You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 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 [](;br>
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing [this form](;br>
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
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Salary : $223,000 - $248,000
