Uber Senior Software Engineer Backend Platform Engineering 

United States, West Virginia 

750597437

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience : 5+ years as a software engineer focused on building large-scale distributed systems with proven impact.
• Architecture : Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs. Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Coding Skills : Proficient in writing clean, elegant, bug-free code.
• Leadership : Proven experience leading engineering teams to deliver large, multi-functional projects autonomously. Ability to own part of the team’s charter and help set the long-term direction.
• Project Management : Ability to manage projects from scoping requirements to launch.
• Continuous Learning : Strong desire to learn, grow, and build best-in-class systems.

Key Skills:

• Solution Design : Design reliable solutions for business use cases in highly distributed systems.
• Problem Solving : Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Implementation : Implement solutions in Go, focusing on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage, and running it in production.
• Cross-Team Communication : Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to push forward and step back as needed. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Engineering Best Practices : Commitment to pushing the bar on engineering best practices and helping build a strong engineering culture. Contribute to the team’s engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.

• Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Tackle challenging problems with innovative design and algorithms.
• Collaborate with team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience.
• Promote best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, working with cross-functional teams to design for scalability and testability.
• Work with motivated and curious teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

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