Sr. Software Engineer - Capacity & Efficiency Engineering

Uber • San Francisco, CA

79d • $198,000 - $220,000

About The Position

The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will define a holistic vision and build deep, granular insights of our technology infrastructure consumption along with cost accountability. You'll build and enhance our capacity analytics products that help drive our cost-to-serve efficiency programs. In this role you will work closely with a highly cross-functional team, including platform teams, service owners, finance and various leaders building a broad understanding of Uber's consumption of resources across its entire tech stack, identify cost-savings opportunities and develop software guiding key business decisions to grow Uber's infrastructure in the cloud while driving down costs.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
• 6+ 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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!

Responsibilities

• Work with teams across Uber to identify their capacity needs, help scale services and platforms within our capacity budget and find opportunities to make Uber more efficient.
• Build products and services that are highly available and scalable to serve our customers.
• Architect, design, and build essential analytics infrastructure providing visibility and actionability into engineering spend for the entire organization.
• 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.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program.
• May be offered an equity award & other types of compensation.
• Eligible for various benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees