Backend Software Engineer – Foundations

About the Role

As a member of the Foundations team, you'll be responsible for ensuring automation of safe and reliable Uber on-premise and cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for delivering and maintaining the best IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform in the World. Automation of infrastructure inventory management, organisational change, ensuring 99.99% uptime, high availability, capacity and scalability - this is what we do every day at large scale.

Some of the latest team projects:

Set up continuous integration for automatic new datacenter turnup.

Building infrastructure deployment system which is capable to roll out hundreds of safe deployments per month to millions of containers.

What You'll Do:

Partner with fellow engineers to architect and build critical software and systems that can stand the test of scale and availability, while limiting operational overhead.

Drive efficiencies in systems and processes: capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.

Participate in an on call rotation and be available for critical issues.

What You'll Need:

Expert programming skills at least in one of: Go, Java, C/C++, Python, .NET, PHP and an ability to pick up new ones.

Excellent coding abilities

3+ years professional software development experience

BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical team. Equivalent practical experience is a reasonable substitute.

Understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring and storage systems

Bonus If You Have:

Good understanding of Linux GNU (Debian preferred) operating system and internals: kernel, filesystems, modern memory management, threads and processes, the user and kernel-space divide, network stack, etc. is a plus, but not a requirement.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or GCP is a plus.