About the Role
Cadence team is looking for a strong, staff software engineer to join our team! You will be developing and maintaining an open source, cutting edge workflow orchestration engine powering more than 600 critical use cases at Uber and many other major companies outside of Uber.
To get more information about cadence you can visit our most recent meetup videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6H9Jsq4ZQ74g8coDgJu9ZA/videos) or check our website (https://cadenceworkflow.io/).
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
What the Candidate Will Do:

• Write code to build new features to support more use cases
• Develop detailed design documents
• Improve onboarding, observability and operability experiences for Cadence

Basic Qualifications:

• Solid background in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java or C++
• Full-stack infrastructure knowledge.
• You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. You are open-minded to discuss various technical approaches and able to drive consensus across various stakeholders at Uber.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather requirements and draft detailed design documents.
• BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field. Masters/Ph.D. preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability
• Experience in distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals
• Knowledge of metrics collection systems like Prometheus
• Familiarity with Kafka, ElasticSearch, key-value stores (e.g. Cassandra)
• Experience with Thrift, gRPC, protobuf