Responsibilities
- Design and build long-lasting backend and data engineering systems that reduce complexity and increase developer velocity.
- Solve high-impact technical problems involving low latency, high correctness, performance, reliability, and scale.
- Identify architectural opportunities and address potential issues before they affect the global marketplace.
- Lead organization-wide development and adoption of key engineering frameworks.
- Collaborate with Product, Science, and Operations to translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready technical roadmaps.
- Lead engineering projects through inception, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and operations.
- Oversee incident management processes and direct on-call rotations.
- Mentor and guide engineers while raising engineering and design quality standards.
- Represent the organization within the broader internal and external technical community.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience in backend software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role.
- Expertise writing high-quality code for strategically important, cross-organizational problems.
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and data warehousing, including identifying and reconciling architectural gaps.
- Experience leading organization-wide engineering projects through their full lifecycle.
- Proven experience overseeing incident management and directing on-call rotations.
- Ability to make sound engineering and business tradeoffs with long-term organizational implications.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building high-performance, scalable distributed systems at a 100M+ user scale is preferred.
- Expertise with real-time streaming frameworks such as Flink and Spark and OLAP systems such as Apache Pinot and Druid is preferred.
- Experience with Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem tools for complex data orchestration is preferred.
- Strong leadership, alignment-building, and technical communication skills are preferred.
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About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.