Sr Staff Software Engineer

Uber-posted about 2 months ago

Full-time • Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

5,001-10,000 employees

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

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Uber is seeking Sr staff level engineering candidates with a proven breadth and depth of experience to help take our databases systems to the next level, and pioneer Uber's next generation of AI. In return, we offer an unmatched opportunity to find the challenges that will take you to the next level.The Storage Platform team builds and operates Uber's online storage. We use a mix of internally-developed systems and open-source software such as TiDB, Cassandra and MySQL. We are embarking on a journey to modernize our databases for its next generation with AI capabilities and evaluating opportunities to introduce new systems and components to power AI applications that will take us to the next level in scalability, efficiency, availability, and ease of use in the AI era.

Provide technical leadership in architecting and building mission-critical distributed storage systems which underpin Uber's global operations
Collaborate with others, from talented team members within your group, through smart technologists across product lines, to responsible leaders across Uber. Build up positive relationships with people in the organization, meaningfully collaborating and building trust
Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects
See the big picture and identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for meaningful improvements. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and deliver high leverage solutions on these at the group and organization level
Ability to think broadly and to build alliances across teams; fierce but optimistic in pursuit of the best solution
Obsession with understanding what your customers need and making what you build delightful for them to use.
Dedication to automation and to engineering production systems for reliability and operability. Up the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing and monitoring
Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward

Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.).
8+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in a high caliber environment
Experience in programming languages such as Java, Go or Python
Experience in scalable storage and working with databases
Deep expertise in systems engineering at scale in storage or related domains.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
Passionate about building systems that are both powerful and easy to use.

Experience building or operating NewSQL databases at scale, such as TiDB
Deep experience building distributed systems at scale. For example, know the tradeoffs of different sharding and replication strategies; can reason about data consistency in a distributed environment; and know some consensus algorithms and/or at least tried studying Paxos
Proven track record as reflected by attainment of Staff Engineer level or above on a premier tech company engineering ladder, or comparable achievement elsewhere.
Experience working with open-source projects and ecosystem
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents
Track record of leading successful teams. Growing, motivating, and inspiring the people around you!
Customer obsessed and collaborative within and across teams to meet customer needs. Optimistic in the pursuit of the best solution!
Passion for raising the bar in how a world-class engineering culture operates

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