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Software Engineer, Observability

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Uber

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United States , Sunnyvale

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Salary:

171000.00 - 190000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

At Uber, we provide a centralized, reliable, and interactive observability data platform that includes metrics, logging, and tracing. This platform empowers engineers with the tools needed for monitoring, troubleshooting, and performing root cause analysis at scale. The Logging team, a core component of this platform, is responsible for delivering a cutting-edge centralized Logging Platform at Uber's scale. Our system ingests over 35 million log events per second in near real time and handles over 18 petabytes of data available for search, over 20 trillion records. As Uber continues to grow, our system evolves to meet increasing demands. Beyond solving the inherent challenges of large-scale distributed systems—such as scalability, availability, performance, and efficiency—we also focus on providing intelligent insights that identify issues before they impact our customers, ensuring a seamless experience for millions of users worldwide.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design system architecture, own key components to deliver a centralized logging system for Uber
  • Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency
  • Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, production engineer team and product manager to drive adoption and best practices, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features

Requirements:

  • BS or higher degree in Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Proficient in one or more backend languages, like Java, Go, C/C++, C#, with the ability to pick up new ones quickly
  • Strong problem solving skills, with relevant experience (3+ years) in designing and implementing distributed backend services

Nice to have:

  • Proven record of building and operating highly reliable distributed systems at scale
  • Batch and stream data processing experience is a big plus
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Influx and/or building and operating monitoring infrastructure
  • Experience building user interfaces with TypeScript is a plus
  • Under the hood experience with Apache Lucene, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch and other Search technologies is a plus
What we offer:
  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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