Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Sunnyvale, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** The Global Intelligence Team focuses on making Uber take important marketplace decisions with better data and algorithms. The ambitious problems include modeling complex market-level dynamics, rider and driver choices, cross-service decisions across rides/eats, and fine-tuning Uber's pricing with data/algorithms from this team. The software engineers on the team use substantial amounts of data to address these challenges, building scalable engineering solutions. We are looking for people who are passionate about solving ambitious business/product issues with well-trained data engineering expertise, with prior experience or interest in science models and methodologies and who are also passionate about seeking the truth via deep-diving into the complicated structured and unstructured data. What you will do 1. Make architectural and other decisions for the team with minimum oversight. 2. Work on creating a platform that powers data driven decision making for Uber Rides and Eats line of business. 3. Work closely with the science team to implement and productionize the models. 4. Design and develop new systems to empower fast data-driven decisions 5. Build distributed backend systems serving real-time analytics and machine learning features at Uber scale. 6. Work with the product and science team to build and drive technical roadmap and vision for the team. Basic Qualifications 1. 5+ years of full-time engineering experience designing end-to-end data solutions and architecture 2. Experience working with multiple cross functional teams (product, science, product ops etc) 3. Proven experience in large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra) and data warehousing architecture and data modeling. 4. BS/MS/Phd in Computer Science or related field required Preferred Qualifications 1. 5+ years of full-time engineering experience with experience mentoring and managing junior engineers in the team. 2. Experience