About The Role
The Maps Routing Engine & APIs Team owns a stack of technologies that produces the best route from point A to point B and predicts time (ETA) and distance between them. This includes sophisticated routing algorithms with a variety of cost functions, scalable systems to handle over a million QPS and secure and clean APIs for all of Uber to access the above said functionality. We power many Uber products ranging from pickup ETAs, marketplace matching, turn-by-turn navigation, fares, Eats, Freight, bicycles and more to come!
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our growing team in Uber's SF/Sunnyvale office and focus on route prediction and ETA accuracy challenges, different modality support, and scaling the large distributed system. You will have an opportunity to learn from the best experts in the field, make data-driven decisions based on observed user behavior, and impact millions of lives in a positive way, changing the way people move for the better.
What You Will Do
As a Software Engineer on Routing Engine & API team, you will:
- Design and implement solutions and features that improve Uber routing efficiency and accuracy
- Deliver and operate components and features for the distributed systems consumed by multiple teams and clients
- Propose and actively support ideas that drive Uber's mission forward
- Interact cross functionally with engineering, science, product, and operations teams' stakeholders
- Participate in an on-call rotation to monitor and support the services and tools the team owns
Basic Qualifications
- BS/BE degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience coding with Java, Go, or Python (or similar)
- Self motivated with a passion to learn.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and hands-on experience in backend development
Preferred Qualifications
- MS or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience designing and deploying high performance, highly scalable distributed systems with extensive monitoring and logging practices
- Good understanding on big data architecture and hands-on experience on big data systems (using e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Hdfs, Kafka, Presto etc.)
- Outstanding verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Experience with Maps or Geospatial domain
- An understanding of graph search algorithms
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 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 https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits., For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 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 https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
