Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Staff engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also approachable thought leaders within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of talented engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely challenging projects.

Want to apply your deep systems engineering expertise to making the next generation of Uber's online storage systems the most performant, efficient, robust, and flexible to use in the industry? Want to get in at a stage where you can help lay down the architecture our systems will follow for years to come? Want to be part of and shape one of the largest upcoming open-source communities in the database? Want to unlock the potential of Uber's product engineers to magnify the world-changing impact of our products by coming up with innovative systems that are uncommonly simple and natural to use?

1. Provide technical leadership in architecting and building mission-critical distributed storage systems which underpin Uber's global operations
2. Collaborate with others, from talented team members within your group, through smart technologists across product lines, to responsible leaders across Uber. Build up positive relationships with people in the organization, meaningfully collaborating and building trust
3. Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects
4. See the big picture and identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for meaningful improvements. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and deliver high leverage solutions on these at the group and organization level
5. Ability to think broadly and to build alliances across teams; fierce but optimistic in pursuit of the best solution
6. Obsession with understanding what your customers need and making what you build delightful for them to use.
7. Dedication to automation and to engineering production systems for reliability and operability. Up the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing and monitoring
8. Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward

1. Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.).
2. 8+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in a high caliber environment
3. Experience in programming languages such as Java, Go or Python
4. Experience in scalable storage and working with databases
5. Deep expertise in systems engineering at scale in storage or related domains.
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
7. Passionate about building systems that are both powerful and easy to use.

1. Experience building or operating NewSQL databases at scale, such as TiDB
2. Deep experience building distributed systems at scale. For example, know the tradeoffs of different sharding and replication strategies; can reason about data consistency in a distributed environment; and know some consensus algorithms and/or at least tried studying Paxos
3. Proven track record as reflected by attainment of Staff Engineer level or above on a premier tech company engineering ladder, or comparable achievement elsewhere.
4. Experience working with open-source projects and ecosystem
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents
6. Track record of leading successful teams. Growing, motivating, and inspiring the people around you!
7. Customer obsessed and collaborative within and across teams to meet customer needs. Optimistic in the pursuit of the best solution!
8. Passion for raising the bar in how a world-class engineering culture operates