About the role:
Engages with stakeholders across teams to drive clarity of business or technical problems and lead the design and development of data solutions and/or architectures for various products and/or processes across teams. This role is also responsible for anticipating business needs and contributing to defining the standards and strategy for optimizing various data solutions and/or architectures.
About the Team:
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Presto team, you will design, implement, optimize, and manage large scale distributed computing infrastructure that will impact multiple business use cases at Uber scale. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the open-source community for Presto
Presto is our main interactive big data analytics query engine at Uber. It was originally developed at Facebook, and is currently managed in open source by the Presto Linux Foundation. It is the most popular SQL analytics engine at Uber, used by over 6K weekly active users, who run 3M+ queries per week. Presto at Uber has grown a lot in the last few years (currently 3K+ nodes, 10+ clusters) and supports several critical business use cases across Rides, Eats, Freight, Risk, etc.
Minimum qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 2-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Programming and scripting language (e.g. Python, SQL, Java/Scala)
• Big data frameworks (e.g. Spark, Flink, Presto), data modeling, and writing ETLs
• Designing end-to-end data solutions and architecture
• Note the 3-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:
Required:

• Data Analytics
• Data Modeling
• Big Data Processing
• Data Storage Systems
• Distributed Systems

Preferred:

• Experience running production systems with a strong availability SLA.
• Experience working with SQL Compiler, SQL Plan / Runtime Optimization.
• Experience working with Presto, Apache Calcite / Hive / Flink, Apache Spark or similar analytics technologies.
• Experience working with Large Scale distributed system, HDFS / Yarn

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