Senior Software Engineer, Cadence Team

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 scenarios at Uber and powering billions of executions every month. Please apply if you are interested in contributing to a cutting edge distributed technology.

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.

To get more information about cadence you can visit our website ( https://cadenceworkflow.io/).

What the Candidate Will Do

• Contribute to a highly impactful 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

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java or C++
• Excellent coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability
• 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.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cadence or a similar technology
• Understanding of distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals
• Familiarity with Kafka, ElasticSearch, key-value stores (e.g. Cassandra), metrics collection systems like Prometheus
• Experience with gRPC, protobuf

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year.

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

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.