Senior Software Engineer (Storage Platform)

About the Role

Engineering at Uber means building systems with real-world impact under real-world constraints. In this role, you’ll help operate and evolve the infrastructure behind Uber’s large-scale data storage platforms - spanning more than 20 technologies including MySQL, Redis, and Kafka, managing exabytes of data across 50,000+ hosts, running in containers. Our mission is to deliver storage platforms at massive scale with high availability, reliability, and performance, where operations are heavily automated and systems are designed to self-heal.

This role is based in our Aarhus, Denmark office - a key global hub for Uber’s Infrastructure and Platform teams. Since opening in 2014, the office has grown to more than 150 engineers and has become a center of excellence for control planes, distributed systems, and mission-critical storage and compute platforms. Beyond the technical challenges, you’ll join a highly collaborative team of exceptional engineers who are passionate about building reliable, world-class infrastructure.

Read more about our work here: https://www.uber.com/dk/en/blog/odin-stateful-platform/

What You Will Do

You will build Uber’s storage platform, your team focuses on components running on each host in the fleet. On a daily basis you will:

1. Continuously learn about complex systems, storage technologies, change management at fleet level, Linux.
2. Plan, design, and develop new capabilities of the system, and measure their impact on business objectives.
3. Monitor and debug the system in production. You will be part of an on-call rotation.
4. Work together with colleagues in your team, multiple related Stateful Platform teams on the floor, and partner teams in the US and India.
5. Write clean, tested, reviewed Go code, with best in class AI assistance.
6. Contribute to engineering culture in terms of coding and testing practices, dev experience practices, productivity.

You will build ownership of the team's charter (or parts of it) and a long-term vision for the involved components.

What You Will Need/Bonus Points

Basic Qualifications

1. 5+ years of experience.
2. BS, MS, or Ph.D. degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or similar practical experience.
3. Grit, growth mindset, passion for engineering.
4. Strong at design, coding, testing, bash/ssh.
5. Experience operating containerized software at scale.
6. Team player, collaborative. Can coordinate projects with partner teams, lead ambitious engineering initiatives.
7. Attention to detail, particularly around software engineering fundamentals, and quality.
8. Embrace of AI in software development workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with resource management on Linux - CPU, memory, disk, network.
2. Experience with building large-scale distributed systems.
3. Excellent written communication in design documents, problem analysis or incident post mortems.
4. Passion to look inside and understand how fundamental platforms work (Linux, Kubernetes).
5. Experience with OCI, GCP, AWS.
6. Experience with multiple SQL, NoSql, Blob, Cache products.

This pipeline is intended for candidates with approximately 5+ years of relevant industry experience after completing their education.

The role level corresponds to an L5a position — Senior Software Engineer. Learn more about the L5a hiring process and how to prepare here: https://jobs.uber.com/en/uber-interview-guide/backend-engineering-interview-guide/

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation Package: Includes base pay, bonus and the opportunity to be awarded stock options (RSUs) to ensure you own a piece of the mission you’re building.
• Monthly Uber Credits: Credits to use on Uber Rides and Uber Eats every month.
• Culture & Socials: Frequent local social events and office clubs (chess, board games, running, crossfit, creative club and more)
• Tech Community: We host regular local tech meetups to stay connected with the Aarhus engineering scene, and give our engineers the opportunity to sometimes share what they’re working on with the community
• Well-being & Fertility: Global support programs for mental health, wellness, and family planning/fertility.
• Parental Leave: Generous, gender-neutral parental leave to support your life outside of work.
• Modern Aarhus Hub: Work in a center of technical excellence featuring catered lunches and top-tier collaboration spaces.

Ready to ride? Uber’s mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. This isn’t the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it’s where you help write one. If you’re driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves, this is the place for you. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

Working Style & Accommodations: Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber’s culture. Our Aarhus office is a hub where deep engineering happens in a highly collaborative environment. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in-office. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role’s requirements.

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.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it 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 accommodations@uber.com.