Staff Software Engineer - Cache Platform

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

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.

About the Role

We are looking for talented engineers to join the Storage Platform. We provide standardized, integrated and fully managed database, object storage and cache infrastructure. Our offerings include proprietary and open-source database solutions that support large scale workloads, high QoS and are dynamically scalable and reliable. Together with that we provide the infrastructure that connects real-time databases to the Big Data Platform that powers business decisions at Uber.

What You'll Do

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Drive reliability, efficiency improvements through design and automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitoring

4. Be technical lead to team, mentor junior engineers, review the technical design, code, and documentation

5. Contribute to enhancing the team's technical and organizational culture; serve as a role model to others.

Basic Qualifications

1. 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

2. Strong experience in implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies and being familiar with practices of large distributed stateful or stateless services.

3. Strong programming skills with Go, C++/C

4. Development Experience in at least one of scalable cache and databases platform

Preferred Qualifications

1. Contributor of Valkey/Redis cores, modules, or libraries or any other open-source cache or storage project.

2. Experience building or operating large-scale, high-traffic caching systems.

3. Deep experience of large-scale distributed systems with performance, reliability and scalability.

4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.