Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

As an Engineer on the Data Intelligence team, you will be dealing with large scale data pipelines and data sets that are critical and foundational for Uber to make decisions for better customer experience. You will be working on a petabyte scale of analytics data from the multiple Uber applications. Help us build the software systems and data models that will enable data scientists to understand our user behavior better and thrive on the data driven mindset at Uber.

About the team

The Data Intelligence Platform team is responsible for the designing core foundational data sets that are critical to understand customers needs and helps business teams take right decisions in solving these critical problems. The team’s mission is to ensure high quality for all the critical data flows for analytics purposes across all verticals in Uber and enable faster implementation of data needs by building standardized tools and framework for accurate analysis. We are currently revamping all critical analytical data flows across domains to build high quality data sets and frameworks that are used across Uber.

Basic Qualifications

1. 7+ years of extensive Data engineering experience working with large data volumes and different sources of data.

2. Strong data modeling skills, domain knowledge and domain mapping experience.

3. Strong experience of using SQL language and writing complex queries.

4. Experience with using other programming languages like Java, Scala, Python

5. Good problem solving and analytical skills

6. Good communication, mentoring and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Extensive experience in data engineering and working with Big data

2. Experience with ETL or Streaming data and one or more of, Kafka, HDFS, Apache Spark , Apache Flink , Hadoop

3. Experience backend services and familiarity with one of the cloud platform ( AWS/ Azure / Google cloud)

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Responsible for defining the Source of Truth (SOT), Dataset designfor multiple Uber teams.

2. Identify unified data models collaborating with Data Science teams

3. Streamline data processing of the original event sources and consolidate them in source of truth event logs

4. Build and maintain real-time/batch data pipelines that can consolidate and clean up usage analytics

5. Build systems that monitor data losses from the different sources and improve the data quality

6. Own the data quality and reliability of the Tier-1 & Tier-2 datasets including maitaining their SLAs, TTL and consumption

7. Devise strategies to consolidate and compensate the data losses by correlating different sources

8. Solve challenging data problems with cutting edge design and algorithms.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].