Software Engineer II - Deployment Platform
About the role and team
Uber's Deployment Engine team is the backbone of how the world's largest ride-sharing and delivery platform safely ships innovation at scale, impacting ~150 million customers. Our deployment platform enforces policies and gathers real-time signals to ensure that every change to Uber's production systems rolls out incrementally and automatically reverts if those signals hint at trouble.
Our mission is simple: make production deployments stress-free for every engineer at Uber. We do this by building intelligent guardrails that continuously evolve alongside new workload types, deployment patterns, and scale demands. With ~1M rollout operations per week across our deployment systems, orchestrating changes safely is a genuinely hard problem and one we're deeply passionate about solving. The stakes are real: our systems directly impact 150 million+ monthly active platform consumers globally, 7 million+ active drivers and couriers, and services in 70+ countries and 10,000+ cities.
Our platform makes high-precision, data-driven decisions to detect potential incidents and regressions early and automatically, dramatically reducing the risk of outages. We power capabilities like:
Automatic rollbacks of bad deployments
Emergency deploy policies and system lockdowns during active incidents
Incident mitigation tooling that keeps Uber's services available and reliable
If you're energized by wrestling with distributed systems edge cases, using cutting-edge technologies, and infrastructure challenges—the kind that keep a global business running—you'll thrive here. You'll work on a critical platform that enables Uber to innovate rapidly without compromising safety or reliability, making our customers happy and our services world-class.
What you’ll do
Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
Tackle challenging problems with innovative design and algorithms.
Collaborate with team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience.
Follow best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
Analyze and decompose complex software systems, working with senior engineers to design for scalability and testability.
Work with motivated and curious teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Basic Qualifications
Coding Skills: Proficient in writing clean, well-tested, and elegant code.
Architecture: Understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs. Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
Experience: Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems with landed impact.
Project Management: Ability to work independently and manage tasks, from scoping requirements to launch.
Continuous Learning: Strong desire to learn, grow, and build best-in-class systems.
Engineering Best Practices: Commitment to learning and striving towards the bar on engineering best practices. Contribute to the team’s engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.
Communication: Effective communication and collaboration skills; be a strong team player.
Preferred Qualifications
Solution Design: Partner with senior engineers to design reliable solutions for business use cases in highly distributed systems.
Problem Solving: Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues within the team.
Implementation: Implement solutions in Go, focusing on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage, and running it in production.
This pipeline is intended for candidates with approximately 2+ years of relevant industry experience after completing their education.
The role level corresponds to an L4 position — Software Engineer II. Learn more about the L4 Uber hiring process and how to prepare here: https://jobs.uber.com/en/uber-interview-guide/backend-engineering-interview-guide/
If you are curious about the work we do at Uber Aarhus, please read more on our blog or sign up for our talent community.
Uber Engineering blog: https://www.uber.com/dk/en/blog/engineering/
Uber Talent Community: https://flows.beamery.com/uber/join-our-talent-community
Perks & Benefits:
Monthly Uber Credits: Credits to use on Uber Rides and Uber Eats every month.
Equity Compensation: Opportunity to be awarded stock options (RSUs) to ensure you own a piece of the mission you’re building.
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.
Learn more about Uber’s benefits here: https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits/
If you are a student or recent graduate, we encourage you to join our Early Talent Network, where you can meet Uber employees and network.
Uber is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.