Software Engineer II - Service Mesh

Software Engineer II - Service Mesh Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Service Mesh team. Focused on high-impact projects, you will be dedicated to shaping the future of L4/L7 layer networking and service mesh infrastructure, building the efficient, modern, and resilient foundation for Uber's products. This role directly addresses the core engineering challenge of microservice communication by tackling complex, large-scale problems such as achieving extreme **scalability** for a platform connecting over 25 million drivers and couriers globally, minimizing **infrastructure cost** and optimizing resource utilization, and implementing advanced **load balancing** to ensure high availability, low latency, and reliable communication across distributed hosts. **What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points** \-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ---- 1. Design, develop, and maintain the service mesh infrastructure (discovery, traffic management, routing) to ensure high reliability and scalability 2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Compute, Foundations, Deployment, Cloud, SRE, Storage, and Product teams), design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance L7/L4 layer networking solutions, through sophisticated experiments 3. Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely resolution of critical incidents and ensure system availability. 4. Conduct in-depth debugging and troubleshooting of networking issues, both proactively and reactively. 5. Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting systems to enhance system reliability. 6. Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in networking, service mesh, and cloud-native architectures. \-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ---- 1. You have a proven record of building and productionizing highly reliable infrastructure at scale. 2. Experience in building large-scale distributed systems 3. 2+ years of relevant engineering experience, specifically working on backend services' networking stack or