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About Uber Production Engineering:
Production Engineer is an organization of engineers who work with our production services throughout their entire life cycle, from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment, and sustaining operation. Production Engineer delivers important system properties: reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability, for the products and platforms that our customers use every day. Production Engineers work in high-performance squads with expertise on large scale system reliability and in-depth understanding of critical business components architecture, as well as dedicated engineering teams building comprehensive tools, platform and infrastructure.
Your Opportunity
Join Uber Production Engineering and help us redefine what it means to be a Production Engineer in 2021! As an Uber Production Engineer, you will join a team of reliability engineers who partner with development teams throughout the organization with the ultimate goal of improving Uber products, features, and flow reliability.
An Uber Production Engineer spends just as much of their time working on systems as they do writing code. You'll be tasked with all manner of work from building operational tooling, automating operational workflows, performing architecture and design reviews, investigating system failures and sophisticated outages, improving our monitoring infrastructure, defining service level objectives and agreements for Uber products and flows and much more.
We are hiring for Production Engineers:

• We are authorities in Uber infrastructure and standard methodologies, and we closely partner with rest of engineering teams to run best-in-class distributed systems optimized for high throughput and low latency.
• We take ownership in creating sophisticated and reliable code.
• Architecture skills. You will be constructing highly scalable software systems and chipping in with your knowledge on the principles of fault-tolerance, reliability and efficiency. Experience designing and deploying dedication production services with extensive monitoring and logging practices.
• Automation of deployment and configuration processes
• Develop reliability tools and frameworks for use by all engineers
• Share on-call with your engineering team and lead incident response and no-blame postmortem analysis and review
• Drive efficiencies in systems and processes: capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.
• We are on point for capacity planning and to help teams anticipate and prepare for growth.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Production Engineering is an organization of engineers who work with our production services throughout their entire life cycle, from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment and sustaining operation.
• Production Engineer delivers significant system properties: reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability, for the products and platforms that our customers use every day.
• Production Engineers work in high-performance squads with expertise on large scale system reliability and in-depth understanding of critical business components architecture, as well as dedicated engineering teams building comprehensive tools, platform, and infrastructure

Basic Qualifications

• Systems Engineering (Architecting, building, deploying and leading large scale and highly available applications)
• Programming skills in Python & Go
• Prior experience in an SRE/PE/DevOps role

Preferred Qualifications

• Grit, drive and a deep feeling of ownership.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical subject area. Equivalent practical experience is a reasonable substitute.
• Good programming skills in one of C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python or Go, and an ability to pick up new ones.
• Experience in the Linux environment and a good understanding of its fundamentals and internals: filesystems and modern memory management, threads and processes, the user/kernel-space divide, etc.
• A good understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring and storage systems.
• Experience with developing and maintaining software frameworks and API's
• Proven understanding of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.

We're bringing Uber to every major city in the world. We need your skills and passion to help make it happen!
Be sure to check out the Uber Engineering Blog and @UberEng to learn more about the team.