Senior Software Engineer, Metric Platform

About the RoleObservability is a space that has grown beyond just monitoring. At Uber, we provide a centralized, reliable, and interactive Telemetry platform including metrics, logging and tracing that empowers engineers to work quickly and confidently at scale. The metric platform team, one of the core parts of the telemetry platform, is responsible for providing an end to end distributed metric solution at Uber scale.As a Senior Engineer on the metric team, you'll help build the next-generation of observability that is used by every engineer at Uber to develop, scale, understand and monitor their systems in an environment with over 4000 micro-services, hundreds of thousands of CPU cores in multiple data-centers and the cloud, and hundreds of thousands of concurrent trips around the world! The team focuses on:

Building Uber's in-house metrics platform called M3

Building new platform for handling high cardinality metrics

Provide data and insights for engineers around metrics utilization

What the Candidate Will Do

Design system architecture, own key components to deliver centralized metric platform for Uber.

Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency.

Provide technical leadership, influence fellow engineers and role model solid engineering practices.

Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, production engineer team and product manager to drive adoption and best practices, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features.

Basic Qualifications

BS or higher degree in Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

Proficient in one or more backend languages, like Java, Go, C/C, C#, with the ability to pick up new ones quickly.

Strong problem solving skills, with relevant experience in designing and implementing large scale distributed backend services

Preferred Qualifications

Proven record of building and operating highly reliable distributed systems at scale.

Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Influx and/or building and operating monitoring infrastructure at large scale is a big plus.

Under the hood experience with Apache Lucene, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch and other Search technologies is a big plus.

Batch and stream data process pipeline experience is a plus.

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 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.Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbY9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform