Staff Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency Engineering

Staff Backend Software Engineer

The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join us in San Francisco or Seattle. As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you will help define a holistic vision and build core products across a variety of focus areas such as: capacity planning, forecasting, budgeting, capacity management, hardware allocation, as well as fleet-wide monitoring and complex analytics. 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.

What the Candidate Will Do:

• Work with teams across Uber to identify, model and project capacity needs over time, 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 software solutions to help with all aspects of capacity planning/management/engineering to scale Uber's infrastructure across a variety of sophisticated workflows and business processes.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
• 5+ 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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!

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link uber.com/careers/benefits. 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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform.