About the Role

The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Amsterdam. Possible specializations include: frontend, backend, fullstack and data engineering. As a Senior 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.

In this role you will work closely with a highly cross-functional team, including platform teams, service owners, finance and various leaders building a broad understanding of Uber’s consumption of resources across its entire tech stack, identify cost-savings opportunities and develop software guiding key business decisions to grow Uber’s infrastructure in the cloud while driving down costs.

What the Candidate Will Do

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.

You will build products and services that are highly available and scalable to serve our customers.

As a frontend engineer, you will design and build web applications with the latest web technologies - React, GraphQL, Flow, Typescript, CSS in JS, node.js, and leveraging open-source frameworks built by Uber such as Base UI, styletron, and Fusion.js to build compelling solutions.

As a backend engineer, you will 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.

You will 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.

5+ years of experience building distributed systems (for backend), interactive web applications (for frontend) and big data (for data engineering).

Proficient in the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Javascript. Good scripting skills and the ability to pick up new ones.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with fullstack development.

Front-end experience building complex FE applications using a type system with Javascript (Flow or Typescript). Experience with GraphQL.

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!

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.

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