At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion, taking on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world, specifically by providing standardized, integrated and fully managed database, object storage and cache infrastructure
Requirements
- Strong programming skills with Go, C++/C
- Development Experience in at least one of scalable cache and databases platform
- Strong experience in implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies and being familiar with practices of large distributed stateful or stateless services
- Contributor of Valkey/Redis cores, modules, or libraries or any other open-source cache or storage project
- Experience building or operating large-scale, high-traffic caching systems
- Deep experience of large-scale distributed systems with performance, reliability and scalability
Responsibilities
- Design, lead prototyping and development, test and roll out the next generations of our storage infrastructure at Uber, meeting high standards of performance, reliability, and usability
- Engage with stakeholders and collaborate across teams to lead development, ensure that the infrastructure we’re building works seamlessly across different storage backends and best serves application engineers
- Drive reliability, efficiency improvements through design and automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitoring
- Be technical lead to team, mentor junior engineers, review the technical design, code, and documentation
- Contribute to enhancing the team’s technical and organizational culture; serve as a role model to others
Other
- Bachelor's degree in any engineering field (e.g. Computer Science/ Engineering, etc.) with +7 years of software development experience OR Master’s degree +5 of software development experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents
- Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office
- For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time
- Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp
