About the Role
Uber is strongly vested in the success of the the fleet supply on Uber, given the quality it brings to the marketplace dynamics. The Vehicles Engineering Org in Seattle is building and evolving the best-in-class systems to match Earners with Uber Suppliers, as well as evolving the repertoire of fleet-in-a-box tools the suppliers need to manage their business. The Vehicles team has a mission to grow available supply for Uber's marketplace by enabling earners without access to vehicles to earn on Uber. The team's core mission is to explore and implement innovative solutions to transform the way vehicles are utilized and accessed within the Uber ecosystem.
What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Direct efforts within the organization to understand requirements and consolidate and translate strategically important business or technical problems into executable and extensible designs.
• Lead all aspects of design development that incorporate current short- and long-term needs, and can be extended for future needs.
• Address systemic issues, needs, and business requirements of various customers and teams, the ease of adoption, and documentation.
• Identify and advocate for strategic investments in extensible solutions within the organization, and build extensible solutions capable of reuse or integration to avoid redundant development.
• Serve as a resource for the team to connect them with broader engineering directions and initiatives.
• Scale up initiatives quickly, leveraging and assigning appropriate resources to various tasks and sub-tasks, and facilitating rapid movement towards end-goal.
• Set the standard of the engineering and/or people culture within their organization.
• Serve as a role model for mentoring and developing engineers into impactful citizens of Uber engineering.
• Define standards in testing, monitoring, and alerting systems and lead organizations to complete them.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 10 years of experience as a software engineer and building large-scale distributed systems
• Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in languages like , JS , Java, GO
• Must have led teams of engineers to deliver autonomously on large multi-functionally driven projects
• Skilled in architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
• Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best-in-class systems
• Experienced at Cross Team Communication: Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration - you know when to push on and when to step back. We work closely with several groups and supporting these other groups is a key part of scaling our business.
• Push the bar on engineering standard processes and help leaders build a strong engineering culture
• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• Master's (or Ph.D) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Ability to communicate ideas and proposals concisely to a wide-range of audiences
• Ability to author both technical and non-technical documentation on a continuous cadence

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .
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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.