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Uber Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend - Cadence in Seattle, Washington
About the Role
Cadence is a modern open source microservice orchestration platform developed at Uber and adopted by many leading companies. It serves as the backbone for more than 1,000 Cadence domains at Uber, powering billions of executions each month. With a rapidly growing open source community, Cadence offers the opportunity to make an impact not just at the company level but across the industry.
We are seeking a software engineer with experience building highly scalable, high throughput, low latency, multi tenant backend systems. Beyond technical expertise, we are looking for someone passionate about open source, someone who listens to the community, helps organize meetups, and addresses community needs. In this role, you will lead a large backend team, shape standards for both the Cadence team and its community, and contribute to the growth of cutting edge distributed technology.
To get more information about Cadence you check our website ( https://cadenceworkflow.io/ ), LinkedIn page ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/cadenceworkflow ) or YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/@cadenceworkflow2989/videos ).
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
Contribute to an open source project used by many major companies
Write code to build new features to support more use cases
Develop and review design documents
Improve onboarding, observability and operability experiences for Cadence
Define standards for the processes used internally and externally
---- Basic Qualifications ----
Experience in team and technology leadership
Solid background in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java or C+3. Strong infrastructure experience. Experience in distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals.
Great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. You are open-minded to discuss various technical approaches and able to drive consensus across various stakeholders at Uber.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather requirements and draft detailed design documents.
BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field. Masters/Ph.D. preferred.
10+ years of relevant software engineering experience
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
Experience with leading an open source project
Experience with Durable Functions, SWF or Temporal
Excellent coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability
Familiarity with technologies like Kafka, OpenSearch, Cassandra, gRPC, protobuf, Prometheus
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$267,000 per year - USD$297,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.
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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform