Job Information
Uber Software Engineer II - Dynamic Pricing (Surge) in San Francisco, California
About the Role
The mission of the Surge team is to maintain overall marketplace reliability by balancing supply/demand in real-time through dynamic pricing. We build scalable real-time systems to understand the state of the market, forecast future demand, make predictions using ML models, solve network optimization programs, and eventually make pricing decisions for each rider session.
Surge plays a critical role in service of Uber's mission to make transport accessible. We generate billions of dollars in annual gross bookings for the company by optimizing network efficiency and make a significant contribution to driver earnings. In addition to pricing, the signals we generate are some of the most important features used in practically every optimization/ML system across Uber. Although we are a backend team, what we do has an outsized impact on our riders because prices and reliability are two of the most important elements of customer experience.
What the Candidate Will Do
Build scalable real-time systems that will help us calculate the right prices to balance the marketplace.
Build tools for offline evaluation and simulation for decision making and policy selection.
Support feature development, experimentation, iteration, and scaling to global launch.
Help define monitoring and observability standards.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
Proficient in a language such as Java/Go/Python
Experience building scalable distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
2+ years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC, etc..)
Experience with unit and integration testing
Familiarity with in-memory datastores (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
On-call experience
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$158,000 per year - USD$175,500 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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform