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Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer - Production Fleet Engineering

A global technology company providing ride-sharing, food delivery, and transportation services.
$180,000 - $200,000
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer - Production Fleet Engineering

Uber is seeking a Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer to join their Fleet Engineering team in San Francisco or Sunnyvale. This role combines hardware and software performance engineering, focusing on software-level diagnostics, tuning, and observability across their infrastructure stack. The position requires expertise in optimizing performance from OS and kernel layers through application runtimes across multi-cloud, bare-metal, and containerized environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong systems or SRE background with 5+ years of experience in performance engineering. They'll work on critical performance optimization, collaborate with various teams, and drive architectural decisions that impact Uber's system scalability. The role offers competitive compensation ($180,000-$200,000), equity, and comprehensive benefits. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about systems performance and wants to impact a global technology leader's infrastructure.

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Responsibilities For Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer - Production Fleet Engineering

  • Analyze and optimize application and system performance across cloud instances, bare metal, and containerized workloads
  • Debug high-impact performance issues using profiling tools
  • Partner with SREs and Infra engineers to automate performance analysis and observability
  • Act as a bridge between software and infrastructure teams
  • Contribute to Uber's internal benchmarking and profiling frameworks
  • Drive architectural and tooling decisions
  • Stay current on new server technologies, runtimes, and infrastructure paradigms

Requirements For Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer - Production Fleet Engineering

Go
Java
Python
Linux
Kubernetes
  • 5+ years of experience in systems-level performance engineering, SRE, or backend infrastructure development
  • Strong software engineering background with fluency in Golang, Java, Python, or C/C++
  • Expertise in performance profiling and tuning with tools like flamegraphs, Linux perf, eBPF
  • Deep understanding of Linux internals
  • Experience with container orchestration platforms
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, observability, and SRE concepts
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills

Benefits For Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer - Production Fleet Engineering

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • Bonus program
  • Equity award
  • Health benefits

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