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Uber Staff Cloud Hardware Solutions Architect, Storage in Sunnyvale, California
About the Role
Uber Next Gen Fleet Engineering team provides TCO optimized, high quality and reliable hardware and cloud infrastructure solutions to support the technology stack that supports Ubers diverse applications across Mobility, Delivery and Freight
Performance is a key metric used to derive TCO optimized hardware for platforms such as compute, storage, data and machine learning. This role will involve ensuring that we are meeting or exceeding our target performance metrics across these platforms and the applications that ride on them, with a focus on storage, by owning every aspect of performance including benchmarking, system tuning, application debugging, and optimization.
What you'll do
You will leverage your expertise in systems infrastructure, hardware, and cloud technologies to assess and evaluate storage technologies, ensuring alignment with our cloud roadmap and stakeholder needs. Your role will involve:
Strategic Assessment and Planning: Analyze and assess new storage technologies to determine their fit within our cloud infrastructure strategy, aligning solutions with the needs and expectations of our stakeholders.
Design and Architecture: Contribute to the strategic planning, design, and architecture of storage systems, ensuring they support production reliability, performance optimization, cost efficiency, and cloud expansion efforts.
Benchmarking and Qualification: Oversee the qualification and benchmarking pipelines for new storage solutions, continuously improving the efficiency, accuracy, and usability of related tools and workflows.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams and suppliers to plan, troubleshoot, and resolve issues during the introduction of new storage products and throughout the sustaining qualification processes.
Innovation and Improvement: Bring your experience and insights to drive strategic initiatives around tooling and automation, enhancing the reliability and scalability of our storage infrastructure.
Immediate Impact: Contribute immediately with your ideas and hands-on engineering skills, making a tangible impact on the quality and performance of our infrastructure.
We value the input of all our teammates and expect you to actively participate and share your expertise to improve our systems and processes. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the evolution of our storage infrastructure.
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of relevant hardware engineering experience, with a focus on storage technologies (SSD, NVME, HDD, block storage, etc), and cloud equivalents and products
BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, оr equivalent industry experience
Strong understanding of server hardware and related software dependencies (BIOS, firmware, etc.)
Automate everything bias: You should have an instinct and intuition to automate whatever you can and improve the efficiency of our processes
Collaboration bias: you should have an inherent drive to collaborate, both within the team and across orgs
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to write detailed design documents, ERDs, position papers
A belief that your team can accomplish more together than as separate individuals
Attention to detail, particularly around testing and benchmarking methodologies, and quality
Strong sense of ownership, passion, and initiative to fix problems and optimize systems that are both inside and outside your area of responsibility
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with migration from on prem to cloud is a plus
Experience in hardware health and performance monitoring, benchmarking and qualification solutions - design and operation
Solid understanding of server hardware at scale: network fundamentals, OS imaging, provisioning, distribution, and configuration deployment at a large scale
Strong understanding of Linux & kernel internals, e.g., ability to read and understand kernel code
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.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$203,000 per year - USD$225,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$203,000 per year - USD$225,500 per year. For all US locations, 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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform
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