Uber Software Engineer II - Backend Maps 

United States, West Virginia 

722120157

About the Role

You will own and contribute to systems that reflect the representation of planet earth and its rapid changes. Building the map unlocks the core functionality that enables all Ubers trips and is meant to serve millions of concurrent rides and deliveries.

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain high QPS services that serve map data.
• Implement Spark and related pipelines for ingest of large scale map data.
• Optimize Big Data pipelines to be more efficient, performant, and reliable.
• Extend and optimize large-scale services using NoSQL technologies to achieve greater reliability, higher throughput, and lower latencies.
• Influence the base map architecture and reach alignment with team members and stakeholders on the technical direction.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the Maps Platform and Uber as a whole.

What You Will Need

Basic Qualifications

• Technically strong, with 3+ years of experience experience building highly scalable software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience writing detailed technical documents.
• Experience with Java, Python (bonus points for more than one).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Spark, HDFS, Hive
• Background in geospatial problem solving

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .