Graduate 2025, Software Engineer II, PhD, Aarhus

About The Team

Uber Denmark Engineering team builds Uber's core infrastructure to deploy and run all microservices, database technologies, configuration bundles, data workloads, cloud resources, and other systems globally. Our mission at Uber is to build and run our core infrastructure at scale, with high availability, low cost, and a high level of automation. Explore more about our Engineering teams in Aarhus here.

About The Role

Are you a motivated software engineer who wants to be part of an innovative and impactful tech company? Are you passionate about massive scalability and making our excellent technology available in international markets? Do you want to make meaningful contributions to Uber's success?

We are seeking a PhD Graduate to join our team as we continue to grow our global footprint. This is an opportunity to work with a stellar team on the daily functions that are at the core of Uber's platform engineering efforts.

We have great opportunities ahead to centralize changes across various deployment systems for stateful and stateless services, ML models, dynamic configuration, Cloud resources, secrets, and more. Our platform makes informed decisions with a high degree of precision and accuracy, to detect incidents and regressions early and automatically, thereby minimizing the risk of outages. You will take an active role in designing, implementing and shipping step improvements of our system in order to automate regression detection, and enable autonomous repair/mitigation actions.

What You'll Do

• Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end
• Thrive in an environment with ambiguous product requirements
• Collaborate closely with different teams
• Be motivated to independently own and drive projects forward
• Keep the bar high on sustainable engineering by following best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
• Have a passion to make Uber better for our customers
  
  

Basic qualifications:

• Recently PhD graduated with a relevant degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience coding with Go, C++, Java, Python or similar programming language
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Enjoy building high-quality software that is relied upon by millions of people around the world.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment
  
  

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.

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.

Uber Denmark Engineering team builds Uber's core infrastructure to deploy and run all microservices, database technologies, configuration bundles, data workloads, cloud resources, and other systems globally. Our mission at Uber is to build and run our core infrastructure at scale, with high availability, low cost, and a high level of automation.