About the Role
The Container Platform team is missioned to bring the next-generation container orchestration platform on Kubernetes, and one that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. This platform supports a diverse variety of workloads (stateless, batch, stateful) each different in its characteristics and requirements, in a multi-cloud environment.
The Container Platform is looking for a strong software engineer to join our team! You will be developing ground breaking technologies that power many critical use cases and also you will be working on multiple efficiency initiatives, which focus on reducing Uber infrastructure spendings on hardware/OPEX and drive our profit margin even further!\
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What the Candidate Will Do
- Develop detailed design documents to meet business requirements and solve complex infrastructure challenges
- Complete implementations to enable new features
- Improve onboarding, observability and operability experiences
- Deploy various efficiency solutions on a big scale to reduce Uber hardware footprint.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years professional software development experience.
- Fluency in Programming language (e.g. Go, Java or C++)
- Excellent coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather requirements and draft detailed design documents.
- Strong leadership and problem-solving skills.
- Experience building and maintaining world-class software specialized in distributed systems and infrastructure
- Experience with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle cloud (OCI) or similar
- Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes or Mesos
- Experience with Linux tools and libraries
- Knowledge of metrics collection systems like Prometheus.
- Familiarity with Kafka, ElasticSearch, key-value stores (e.g. Cassandra).
- Experience with networking protocols such as Thrift, gRPC, protobuf
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. 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. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.