Uber's Airports team aims to solve the complex challenges faced by airport travelers by optimizing Uber products for airport scenarios and developing software solutions that cater to the needs of riders, drivers, and airport operators.
Requirements
- Knowledge of underlying technical foundations of distributed systems and microservice architectures
- Experience in one or more object-oriented languages, including Java, Go, Python, or C++
- Experience in simplifying/converting business problems into technical problems
- Experience with relational databases and distributed storage systems (MySQL, Cassandra)
Responsibilities
- Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists and machine learning engineers closely
- Make data driven decisions, with exceptional execution
- Be motivated to own projects and push them forward with independence
- Dive deep into multiple tech stacks across the company to create scalable micro-services and implement efficient algorithms
- Track the success of your feature experiments, collaborating with Data Science and Product teams to iterate on delightful user experiences
Other
- Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program studying distributed systems or a related engineering field
- Candidates must have at least one semester/quarter of their education left following the internship
- Thrive in ambiguous product requirements
- Most importantly, have a passion to make Uber better for our customers
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders to understand business requirements and build cross-functional solutions
