Software Engineer II

at  Uber

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 the Candidate 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:

• 3+ 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

Please refer the Job description for details