Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Cassandra, MySQL or Postgres) | Uber Inc |  Palo Alto &amp; San Francisco | ONSITE | Visa | Full Time
Uber continues to expand into new cities and its growth and popularity present interesting challenges for managing the change in scale with the pace of innovation. We are looking for engineers that are able to apply the principles and discipline of robust distributed systems to solve operational challenges, while enhancing developer productivity and maintaining operational simplicity.
You will be part of a team of engineers with a healthy mix of systems and software engineering skills, executing in a fast paced environment. This involves ensuring that software products that touch the physical world are always available and performant under exponential growth conditions.
Responsibilities: Drive efficiencies in systems and processes: capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.
Requirement: Good programming skills in one of C++/Java, Javascript, Python or Go, and an ability to pick up new ones.
Experience in the Linux environment and a good understanding of its fundamentals and internals: filesystems and modern memory management, threads and processes, the user/kernel-space divide, etc.
A good understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring and storage systems.
Bonus points if you have worked on Cassandra / MySQL / Postgres at scale.
If you are interested and will like to know more about the role and the technical challenges that we face at scale then email me at REDACTED_EMAIL.
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