Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Uber

Aarhus, Denmark

If you're excited about tackling complex, high-impact challenges that keep Uber’s business running efficiently, and constantly evolving, we want you on our team. You'll be working on a critical platform that powers fast, secure, and reliable deployments, ensuring that innovation happens quickly without compromising safety. Join us in building a core system that drives Uber’s ability to innovate, keeps our customers happy, and ensures our services run with the highest level of reliability and security.

What You'll Do:

Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems;
Tackle challenging problems with innovative design and algorithms;
Collaborate with team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience;
Promote best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability;
Analyze and decompose complex software systems, working with cross-functional teams to design for scalability and testability;
Work with motivated and curious teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience: 5+ years as a software engineer focused on building large-scale distributed systems with proven impact;
Architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs. Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues;
Coding Skills: Proficient in writing clean, elegant, bug-free code;
Leadership: Proven experience leading engineering teams to deliver large, multi-functional projects autonomously. Ability to own part of the team’s charter and help set the long-term direction;
Project Management: Ability to manage projects from scoping requirements to launch;
Continuous Learning: Strong desire to learn, grow, and build best-in-class systems.

Key Skills:

Solution Design: Design reliable solutions for business use cases in highly distributed systems. Prior work experience designing reliable, scalable solutions is a must;
Problem Solving: Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues;
Implementation: Write clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage, and running it in production;
Cross-Team Communication: Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to push forward and step back as needed. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams;
Engineering Best Practices: Commitment to pushing the bar on engineering best practices and helping build a strong engineering culture. Contribute to the team’s engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.

Nice to have:

Experience with building platforms, platform engineering, and deployment systems is a plus;
Experience with large scale, data intensive applications is a plus;
Experience working with k8s, operators is a plus;
Go is our primary coding language. We think Java/Rust/C++ is acceptable and transferable.

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