Senior Software Engineer, Backend | Production Management

About the Role:

Our deployment platform enforces policies and gathers signals, ensuring that changes to Uber's production systems are rolled out incrementally and reverted if signals suggest a potential issue.

We want to make production deployments stress-free for engineers across Uber, providing guardrails that continually evolve as we add new workload types. With ~700k rollout operations per week across deployment systems, orchestrating changes to roll out safely is challenging-and we are excited about solving it!

Our platform makes informed decisions with a high degree of precision and accuracy, to detect possible incidents and regressions early and automatically, thereby minimizing the chance of outages. We offer automatic rollbacks of bad deployments, emergency deploy policies, lockdown of systems during an active incident, incident mitigation capabilities, and other critical capabilities that help Uber innovate at remarkable speed.

If you're excited about tackling complex, high-impact challenges that keep Uber's business running efficiently, and constantly evolving, we want you on our team. You'll be working on a critical platform that powers fast, secure, and reliable deployments, ensuring that innovation happens quickly without compromising safety. Join us in building a core system that drives Uber's ability to innovate, keeps our customers happy, and ensures our services run with the highest level of reliability and security.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

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. Prior work experience designing reliable, scalable solutions is a must.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Implementation: Write 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.

Nice to have:

• Experience with building platforms, platform engineering, and deployment systems is a plus
• Experience with large scale, data intensive applications is a plus.
• Experience working with k8s, operators is a plus.
• Go is our primary coding language. We think Java/Rust/C++ is acceptable and transferable.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward together.

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 [email protected].

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

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 [email protected].