IC Sr Staff Software Engineer: Backend
About the Role:
Sr Staff engineers at Uber have a impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models but also approachable leaders with vision within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely exciting projects.
About the Team:
The goal of the fulfillment org is to provide a unified for all business verticals at Uber to develop their trip fulfillment flow and seamlessly integrate , matching, dynamics and other marketplace capabilities into their product. At its core, the Fulfillment org is responsible for orchestrating and maintaining - state of all ongoing trips for Uber. We directly support Uber Rides, Uber Eats, Uber Freight and many more early stage products.
Fulfillment foundations team builds, maintains and optimizes the foundational systems and frameworks on top of which the Uber's core trip fulfillment is built. Some of the critical systems/frameworks that this team develops and supports are: Google Cloud Spanner, Entity State Chart Framework, Fulfillment Indexing/Search, Fulfillment Events, Developer Frameworks, etc. The platforms and frameworks that this team owns are used by 100s of engineers across the company. At peak, our platforms handle 1M+ requests per second.
In the coming years, this team will be innovating in core platforms to support new advanced business use cases such as multimodal trip flows and 3rd party drivers. This includes /building highly scalable databases, advanced indexing/searching and next-gen events.
Minimum qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 4-years full- Software Engineering work experience OR 7-years full- Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 4-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
• Note the 4-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full- 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- work experience indicated.

Technical skills:
Required:

• systems

Preferred:

• Product engineering
• Scalability engineering