Senior Software Engineer - Data Storage
Company: Uber
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $202,000 - $224,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-15
About this role
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the one of the largest Data stacks in the industry with over 1 Exa-Bytes of data in Uber's DataLake. Uber Data Storage team serves Batch Analytics, Streaming Processing as well as AI/ML workload. The team is building several new solutions to catch up with growing needs in performance, scale and efficiency.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- What the Candidate Will Do -
- Learn the internals of big data infrastructure at Uber scale.
- Deep dive into specific technologies, understanding related source code and configuration. Fine-tune these systems to improve overall performance and reliability
- Find and build solutions to innovate the Cloud usage, striking the balance of performance and efficiency
- Leverage Uber's Agents platform to build solution to better serve customers
- Work independently or as a team player with other team members to solve complex technical problems.
- Evaluate pros and cons of different solutions and make decisions based on various situations accordingly.
- Basic Qualifications -
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of industry engineering experience.
- Strong engineering skills, including reading open source code, implementing solutions and performance tuning.
- Bias for action. Execute fast.
- Experience in distributed systems or machine learning systems, programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go and Java
- Preferred Qualifications -
- MS / PhD in Computer Science or related field.
- Experience with AI/ML or big data frameworks (e.g. Pytorch, Ray, Iceberg, Lance, Gravitino, Polaris)
- Experience developing with solutions leveraging Cloud Object Store like S3/GCS/Azure/OCI.
- Experience developing with supporting business critical systems with 99.9+ availability
Experience with modern large scale of AI infrastructure
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per yea...