What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
\-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ----
1. Design, build, and maintain software to increase the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of thousands of stateless and stateful production services spread across multiple datacenter zones and regions.
2. Lead initiatives end-to-end within the team, the Production Engineering org, and across engineering at large to increase reliability through automation, setting standards, developer tooling, and reusable frameworks.
3. Work with other engineers to deeply understand their services and guide them towards practical and reliable architecture and implementation.
4. Apply SRE concepts such as observability, integration/load/chaos testing, on-call, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to improve mean time between failures (MTBF), time to detection (TTD), and time to mitigation (TTM) of incidents.
5. Participate in on-call rotations, responding to and leading mitigation of production incidents, and driving post-incident improvements.
\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----
1. Staff Engineer L5B 8+ years of experience in Go, Java, Python, or similar language
2. Experience in delivering solutions end-to-end from defining problems to generating architecture plans, implementation, testing, and delivery.
3. Writes clear technical proposals and RFCs; able to drive engineering alignment across teams through written design docs and verbal discussion.
\-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ----
1. Experience in various parts of SRE / reliability engineering / incident management at a large-scale company.
2. Experience in platform/infrastructure engineering in related disciplines such as compute platform, software networking, online storage, developer platform, and observability.
3. Experience mentoring and leading teams on projects while remaining hands-on and technical.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits](https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits).
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.
