Uber Sr Staff Software Engineer 

United States, West Virginia 

226883484

About the Role

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• Direct efforts within the organization to understand requirements and consolidate and translate strategically important business or technical problems into executable and extensible designs.
• Lead all aspects of design development that incorporate current short- and long-term needs, and can be extended for future needs.
• Address systemic issues, needs, and business requirements of various customers and teams, the ease of adoption, and documentation.
• Identify and advocate for strategic investments in extensible solutions within the organization, and build extensible solutions capable of reuse or integration to avoid redundant development.
• Serve as a resource for the team to connect them with broader engineering directions and initiatives.
• Scale up initiatives quickly, leveraging and assigning appropriate resources to various tasks and sub-tasks, and facilitating rapid movement towards end-goal.
• Set the standard of the engineering and/or people culture within their organization.
• Serve as a role model for mentoring and developing engineers into impactful citizens of Uber engineering.
• Define standards in testing, monitoring, and alerting systems and lead organizations to complete them.

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• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer and building large-scale distributed systems
• Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in languages like , JS , Java, GO
• Must have led teams of engineers to deliver autonomously on large multi-functionally driven projects
• Skilled in architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
• Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best-in-class systems
• Experienced at Cross Team Communication: Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration - you know when to push on and when to step back. We work closely with several groups and supporting these other groups is a key part of scaling our business.
• Push the bar on engineering standard processes and help leaders build a strong engineering culture
• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

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• Experience across the Tech Stack including Backend/Frontend/Data/ML
• Contributed to the broader technical community through tech talks, publications, open source projects, or other ways.
• Have a proven track record working across an organization not just across teams.

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