Software Engineer II, Backend - Production Engineering

Requirements

• 4+ years working in Go, Java, C++, or Python.
• Experience building, maintaining, and debugging production services or platforms.
• Experience implementing complex software architectures with multiple dependencies.
• Experience analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems.
• Experience communicating with technical teams and leadership to collect requirements and describe technical designs.
• Strong technical writing skills for creating detailed documentation and operations runbooks.

Nice to Haves

• Experience shipping high-quality product features on schedule and with high velocity.
• Experience assisting engineers in solving production incidents and providing guidance during postmortems.
• Ability to think in systems and stay calm under pressure.
• Flexibility to collaborate with stakeholders across different timezones.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain systems that directly support how people and things move in the real world — where performance, safety, and scale can’t be separated.
• Solve messy, high-impact problems in fast-changing environments — often without a clear starting point or obvious solution.
• Work with internal stakeholders to deeply understand their services and architect solutions to their reliability issues, building tooling and services to aid reliability Uber-wide.
• Debug Uber-scale reliability issues, working across multiple services and domains to improve availability for our customers.
• Own your work end-to-end: from the first design doc and collaborative planning to debugging production issues when stakes are high.
• Champion engineering best practices like code health, testing, and design clarity — even when time is tight and pressure is high.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ship thoughtful, practical solutions at speed and advocate for Production Engineering and reliability across the company.

Perks and Benefits

• Uber's mission to reimagine the way the world moves for the better.
• Bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress.
• Offices central to collaboration and cultural identity.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Potential accommodations based on religious, medical conditions or applicable law.