Software Engineer II (Backend) - Cadence

Uber

San Francisco, CA

Full Time

Mid Level

167k-186k

12 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Cadence is a modern open source microservice orchestration service used at Uber and by many other major companies. It's the backbone technology for more than 1000 services at Uber and powering billions of executions every month. The Cadence team is looking for a strong software engineer to join our team! You will be developing and maintaining an open source, cutting edge workflow orchestration engine powering many critical use cases in the industry.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute to an open source project used by many major companies
Write code to build new features to support more use cases
Develop detailed design documents
Improve onboarding, observability and operability experiences for Cadence

Requirements

Experience in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java or C++
Software infrastructure knowledge
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
3+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Nice to Have

Experience with Cadence, Temporal, SWF or Durable Functions
Excellent coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability
Understanding of distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals
Familiarity with Kafka, OpenSearch, key-value stores (e.g. Cassandra), metrics collection systems like Prometheus
Experience with Thrift, gRPC, protobuf

Qualifications

BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field
Masters/Ph.D. preferred
3+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Benefits & Perks

Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of compensation
Eligibility for various benefits as detailed at https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits

Working at Uber

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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. Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time.

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