About The Role
The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us in Amsterdam. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will help define a holistic vision and build core products across a variety of focus areas such as: capacity planning, forecasting, budgeting, capacity management, hardware allocation, as well as fleet-wide monitoring and complex analytics.
Responsibilities
- Work with teams across Uber to identify, model, and project capacity needs over time, help scale services and platforms within our capacity budget, and find opportunities to make Uber more efficient.
- Build products and services that are highly available and scalable to serve our customers.
- Architect, design, and build software solutions to help with all aspects of capacity planning/management/engineering to scale Uber's infrastructure across a variety of sophisticated workflows and business processes.
- Collaborate with other teammates to maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient.
- Write clear documentation so that other engineers can partner to contribute and deliver.
Basic Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
- 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and big data solutions.
- Proficient in the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, JavaScript.
- Good scripting skills and the ability to pick up new ones.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of full-stack development.
- Background in building high-performance, scalable, distributed systems.
- Backend experience with data engineering, data pipelines, big data systems, data science, SQL, analytics.
- Systematic problem-solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.
- Experience with a relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Grit, drive, and a strong sense of ownership coupled with an appetite for collaboration!
Join us in Amsterdam and be part of a team that is at the forefront of driving efficiency and capacity management at Uber. This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging problems and make a significant impact on Uber's infrastructure and operations.
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