Senior Software Engineer – Scalable Deployment Platform

Uber; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber’s Deployment Engine team powers safe, scalable deployments for a global platform. We enable ~150 million customers, 70+ countries, and ~1M rollout operations per week with real-time signals that rollback if trouble appears.

You’ll own critical projects end-to-end, mentor peers, and drive engineering practices to keep services reliable and fast for riders and drivers worldwide. Officed-based collaboration remains central to Uber’s culture, with in-office time expected for most roles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer focused on building large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in writing clean, well tested and elegant code.
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, be a strong team player.
• Commitment to engineering best practices and cultivating team culture around quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver multiple projects from inception to production readiness in the team.
• Own key KPIs, metrics, OKRs and goals of the team.
• Address stakeholder requirements and/or improve end-user experience by designing backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Tackle challenging problems with innovative design and algorithms.
• Collaborate and mentor team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience.
• Promote and evangelize best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability within the team.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, working with cross-functional teams to design for scalability and testability.

Skills

Coding

Distributed systems

Experience 5+ yrs

Communication

Engineering culture

Job description

Uber’s Deployment Engine team powers safe, scalable deployments for a global platform. We enable ~150 million customers, 70+ countries, and ~1M rollout operations per week with real-time signals that rollback if trouble appears.

You’ll own critical projects end-to-end, mentor peers, and drive engineering practices to keep services reliable and fast for riders and drivers worldwide. Officed-based collaboration remains central to Uber’s culture, with in-office time expected for most roles.