Uber Sr Software Engineer - Capacity & Efficiency Engineering 

United States, West Virginia 

717458124

About the Role

What the Candidate Will Do

• Work with teams across Uber to identify, model and project capacity needs over time, help scale services and platforms within our capacity budget and find opportunities to make Uber more efficient.
• You will build products and services that are highly available and scalable to serve our customers.
• As a backend engineer, you will architect, design and build software solutions to help with all aspects of capacity planning/management/engineering to scale Uber’s infrastructure across a variety of sophisticated workflows and business processes.
• You will collaborate with other teammates to maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient.
• Write clear documentation so that other engineers can partner to contribute and deliver.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
• 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and big data solutions.
• Proficient in the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Javascript. Good scripting skills and the ability to pick up new ones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of fullstack development.
• Background in building high-performance, scalable, distributed systems.
• Backend experience with data engineering, data pipelines, big data systems, data science, SQL, analytics.
• Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.
• Experience with a relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Grit, drive and a strong sense of ownership coupled with an appetite for collaboration!

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