Detect Complex Failure Modes: Design detection logic for "silent" failures, such as sensor degradation, compute saturation, or recording pipeline stalls.
Scale Through Automation: Design automated detection, triage, and mitigation mechanisms to eliminate manual intervention as the fleet grows.
Partner on Mitigation: Collaborate with Operations and Engineering to build safe, automated responses to recurring hardware and software failure scenarios.
Drive Operational Efficiency: Build technical interfaces to help Operations surface issues and Engineering diagnose and deploy mitigations rapidly (TTD/TTM).
Lead Technical Strategy: Drive reliability-focused design reviews and translate operational pain points into concrete technical requirements and roadmaps.
Uncover Proactive Insights: Apply advanced data analytics to identify latent patterns in fleet telemetry, enabling the proactive detection of systemic regressions and hardware degradation before they impact operations.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant industry experience in software engineering, site reliability, or systems engineering
Distributed Systems: Experience with modern observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) in edge, IoT, or hardware-integrated environments.
Language Proficiency: coding skills in one or more of Go, Python, or C++, with experience building and operating production systems.
Systems Expertise: Proficiency in Linux internals and shell scripting for triaging and debugging edge devices or hardware-adjacent systems.
Engineering Fundamentals: Ability to debug across services, containers (Docker), and networking stacks.
Reliability Experience: Proven track record owning reliability, infrastructure, or platform systems for large-scale production workloads.
Observability Tooling: Experience designing and operating observability systems (metrics, logging, alerting, and dashboards).
Metrics-Driven: Experience defining and implementing SLIs and SLOs for system availability or data yield.
Networking Knowledge: Deep understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, gRPC, or MQTT) and data handling in bandwidth-constrained environments.
Leadership: Experience driving complex technical projects and architectural reviews across multiple teams from design through production.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with modern observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) in edge, IoT, or hardware-integrated environments.
Knowledge of sensor data protocols (e.g., Camera, LiDAR, Radar) or hardware-to-cloud data ingestion pipelines.
Experience with "Grey Failure" detection and management in complex, distributed systems.
Proven track record in 'Fleet Health' for large-scale hardware deployments (e.g., cloud infrastructure, global server fleets, or industrial IoT) where automation was used to replace manual intervention.
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For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 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.
