About The Role
The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization at Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. This role offers the opportunity to specialize in various areas including frontend, backend, fullstack, and data engineering. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in defining a holistic vision and building core products across focus areas such as capacity planning, forecasting, budgeting, capacity management, hardware allocation, fleet-wide monitoring, and complex analytics.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, tech strategy, and leadership, to understand Uber's resource consumption across its tech stack.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and develop software to guide key business decisions, aiming to grow Uber's infrastructure in the cloud while reducing costs.
- Work with teams across Uber to model and project capacity needs over time, scale services and platforms within budget, and enhance efficiency.
- Build highly available and scalable products and services to serve Uber's customers.
- As a frontend engineer, design and build web applications using the latest web technologies such as React, GraphQL, Flow, Typescript, CSS in JS, and Node.js, leveraging open-source frameworks like Base UI, Styletron, and Fusion.js.
- As a backend engineer, architect, design, and build software solutions for capacity planning and management, scaling Uber's infrastructure across various workflows and business processes.
- Collaborate with teammates to maintain system health, refactor and improve codebases, and ensure systems are robust and resilient.
- Write clear documentation to facilitate collaboration and contribution from other engineers.
- Mentor and advise team members and leaders.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
- 6+ years of experience in building distributed systems (backend), interactive web applications (frontend), and big data systems (data engineering).
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, and JavaScript.
- Experience with fullstack development and frontend applications using a type system with JavaScript (Flow or Typescript).
- Experience with GraphQL and building high-performance, scalable, distributed systems.
- Backend experience with data engineering, data pipelines, big data systems, data science, SQL, and analytics.
- Systematic problem-solving skills and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Strong sense of ownership, collaboration, and drive.
This role is a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned engineer to make a significant impact on Uber's infrastructure and efficiency strategies. If you are passionate about building scalable systems and driving efficiency, we encourage you to apply.
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