About the Role

The Core Platform Foundations team owns defining, monitoring, and controlling operations for the infrastructure that supports Uber's virtual computing environments. We are the lowest software layer abstracting the underlying fleet of hosts whether on prem or on the cloud, and as such we are the guardians of quality and security of the production host. The software that this team owns powers or impacts all of Uber's production fleet - quality, security, and operational mindedness are highly valued, as well as compassion for the developer experience.

- What the Candidate Will Do -

• driving initiatives and change between stakeholder platforms and cloud providers including ingesting new host types, os/kernel upgrades, and improving availability and performance of vms and storage
• supporting a variety of infra-level tools and services like internal DNS, repos for linux packages, and host monitoring agents.
• triaging and deep dive debugging host-level issues
• designing and implementing features and tooling for
• availability, reliability, and security at the host infrastructure layer
• zonal disaster recovery
• "repair engine" - a service that powers various algorithms (including ML + LLM) applied across metrics from host to application layers to detect and diagnose degradations across Uber

- Basic Qualifications -

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience and Bachelor degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related field of study.
• Experience implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies.
• Experience with large-scale, distributed systems development
• Experience working with cloud provider VMs
• Experience with Linux and Debian (tools, libs, settings), debugging at the kernel / OS level
• Experience with or just fearless curiosity to dive into low level systems

- Preferred Qualifications -

• Experience in backend development
• Operational experience of production / live services
• Expertise in one or more object-oriented programming languages (Go, Java, Python).

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 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.