**About the Role**

Staff engineers at Uber have a deep 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 design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also approachable thought leaders within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of talented engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely challenging projects.

Want to apply your deep systems engineering expertise to making the next generation of Uber’s online storage systems the most performant, efficient, robust, and flexible to use in the industry? Want to get in at a stage where you can help lay down the architecture our systems will follow for years to come? Want to be part of and shape one of the largest upcoming open-source communities in the database? Want to unlock the potential of Uber’s product engineers to magnify the world-changing impact of our products by coming up with innovative systems that are uncommonly simple and natural to use?

Uber is seeking staff-level engineering candidates with a proven breadth and depth of experience to help take our storage systems to the next level. In return, we offer an unmatched opportunity to find the challenges that will take you to the next level.

The Storage Platform team builds and operates Uber’s online storage. We use a mix of internally-developed systems (Schemaless, Docstore) and open-source software such as Cassandra and MySQL. We are embarking on a journey to modernize our database for its next generation and evaluating opportunities to introduce new systems and components that will take us to the next level in scalability, efficiency, availability, and ease of use.

Join us to shape the future of Uber’s storage infrastructure!

What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Provide technical leadership in architecting and building mission-critical distributed storage systems which underpin Uber’s global operations
2. Collaborate with others, from talented team members within your group, through smart technologists across product lines, to responsible leaders across Uber. Build up positive relationships with people in the organization, meaningfully collaborating and building trust
3. Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects
4. See the big picture and identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for meaningful improvements. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and deliver high leverage solutions on these at the group and organization level
5. Ability to think broadly and to build alliances across teams; fierce but optimistic in pursuit of the best solution
6. Obsession with understanding what your customers need and making what you build delightful for them to use.
7. Dedication to automation and to engineering production systems for reliability and operability. Up the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing and monitoring
8. Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward

\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.).
2. 8+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in a high caliber environment
3. Experience in programming languages such as Java, Go or Python
4. Experience in scalable storage and working with databases
5. Deep expertise in systems engineering at scale in storage or related domains.

\-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience building or operating NewSQL databases at scale, such as TiDB
2. Deep experience building distributed systems at scale. For example, know the tradeoffs of different sharding and replication strategies; can reason about data consistency in a distributed environment; and know some consensus algorithms and/or at least tried studying Paxos
3. Proven track record as reflected by attainment of Staff Engineer level or above on a premier tech company engineering ladder, or comparable achievement elsewhere.
4. Experience working with open-source projects and ecosystem
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents
6. Track record of leading successful teams. Growing, motivating, and inspiring the people around you!

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits](https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits).

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing [this form](https://forms.gle/aDWTk9k6xtMU25Y5A).

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.