Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend - Cadence

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 can 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++
• 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$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of compensation. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

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