Uber Staff Software Engineer Search Platform 

United States, West Virginia 

636156302

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to play a key role in refining and optimizing our search capabilities. You will get to work on cutting edge technologies and you will get to work with industry experts ranging from distributed systems to machine learning

What the Candidate Will Do

• Design and implement new features in our search infrastructure solutions at Uber.
• Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, production engineer team and product manager to drive adoption and standardize processes, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features.
• Manage a small technical team w/ deep focus

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C/C++ or similar languages. Good scripting skills and ability to pick up new ones.
• Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of building, scaling and maintaining software systems in production environments
• Solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, system design
• Experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Strong architectural skills
• Experience working with search or serving systems (ex, Lucene, ElasticSearch, Opensearch, Solr)
• Experience with big data tools (Spark, Flink, Hadoop)

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.