Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

Uber

Aarhus, Denmark

About the Role

The Unified Configuration System team enables Uber’s engineers and operators to manage/configure their fleet-wide services safely and efficiently on a large scale. We put extra emphasis on safe and gradual configuration rollout, ensuring proper monitoring and automatic rollback in case issues are detected.

The team provides a unified and scalable configuration experience across all of Uber’s workloads, data centers, and cloud vendors. We closely collaborate with many product and platform teams, also supporting custom-tailored configuration solutions that serve specific business needs.

What You Will Do

The candidate will help build large-scale software solutions to ensure Uber’s systems are reliable and efficient – in a team of people that want you to grow and succeed.

Examples of what it means to be an engineer in our team:

• Design reliable solutions to solve business use cases in a highly distributed system;
• Implement solutions in Go with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage – and run it in production;
• Actively drive collaboration across multiple teams to create alignment and progress;
• Take an active part in code change peer reviews to ensure quality and knowledge sharing across the team;
• Contribute to engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices;
• Own part of the team’s charter and through that help set longer-term direction for the team.

Basic Qualifications

A typical engineer has the following profile. We expect that you have similar traits:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience;
• Self-driven, team-first, strong ownership;
• BS, MS, or PhD degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience;
• Background in multiple programming languages, e.g., Go, Java, Python, etc.;
• Attention to detail, particularly around software engineering fundamentals, testing methodologies, and quality;
• Good verbal and written communication skills. Experience writing design documents, documentation, post-mortems, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building large distributed systems;
• Experience with running critical systems in production, monitoring them, and handling incidents;
• Experience with containerization software such as Kubernetes or Docker;
• Experience with database and storage technologies and understanding trade-offs between them;
• Comfortable working with on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP);
• Experience with Linux development.