Uber · 3 hours ago
Sr Staff Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expUber is seeking sr staff level engineering candidates to help modernize their storage systems. The role involves providing technical leadership in architecting and building distributed storage systems while collaborating with various teams across the organization.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.)
12+ 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
Preferred
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
Benefits
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
You will also be eligible for various benefits.
Company
Uber
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
10001+ employees
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