Deadline:
As soon as possible
Internships
Location(s)
- Netherlands
Amsterdam
Overview
Details
About the role
Uber Engineering is growing quickly as we look to take on exciting opportunities at scale around the world.
Internally, we build and run thousands of RPC services defined in Thrift and Protobuf that communicate with one another via HTTP, TChannel, & gRPC. Our team owns the adapter layer that abstracts the details of RPC away from the service teams and the resilience components on the server-side (e.g. timeouts, load shedding) and on the client-side (e.g. circuit breaker, retries).
We want to optimize various aspects of RPC related to latency, throughput, and reliability. We have internal guidelines and tuning mechanisms. The goal here would be to innovate on the current recommendations and research and demonstrate how we can build more performant and reliable distributed systems. Depending on the results we may choose to open source the approach and publish the research in blog posts and academic papers.
What You'll Do
- Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end.
- Thrive in ambiguous product requirements.
- Iterate fast to explore possible solutions.
- Make data-driven decisions with exceptional execution.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and data scientists.
- Be motivated to own projects and push them forward with independence.
- Most importantly, have a passion for making Uber better for our customers.
- Publish your work at top computer science conferences.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Basic Qualifications
- Ongoing PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Prior experience with networking & distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of optimization techniques.
- Excellent coding skills and software design skills.
- Available for a 3 month full time internship from July until September or October until December 2025
- Work authorization in the Netherlands
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business partners.
- Experience in simplifying/converting business problems into technical problems.
- Research mentality with a bias towards action to structure a project from idea to experimentation to prototype to implementation.
- Experience presenting at industry-recognized academic conferences.
- Published papers in networking or optimization.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
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