Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Platform Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Aarhus, Denmark Type: Full-Time **About the Role** The Unified Configuration System team enables Uber’s engineers and operators to manage/configure their fleet-wide services safely and efficiently on a large scale. We put extra emphasis on safe and gradual configuration rollout, ensuring proper monitoring and automatic rollback in case issues are detected. The team provides a unified and scalable configuration experience across all of Uber’s workloads, data centers, and cloud vendors. We closely collaborate with many product and platform teams, also supporting custom-tailored configuration solutions that serve specific business needs. **What You Will Do** The candidate will help build large-scale software solutions to ensure Uber’s systems are reliable and efficient – in a team of people that want you to grow and succeed. Examples of what it means to be an engineer in our team: - Design reliable solutions to solve business use cases in a highly distributed system. - Implement solutions in Go with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage – and run it in production. - Actively drive collaboration across multiple teams to create alignment and progress. - Take an active part in code change peer reviews to ensure quality and knowledge sharing across the team. - Contribute to engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices. - Own part of the team’s charter and through that help set longer-term direction for the team. **Basic Qualifications** A typical engineer has the following profile. We expect that you have similar traits: - 5+ years of professional software development experience - Self-driven, team-first, strong ownership. - BS, MS, or PhD degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience - Background in multiple programming languages, e.g., Go, Java, Python, etc. - Attention to detail, particularly around software engineering fundamentals, testing methodologies, and quality. - G