Steve Bauer
Engineering Manager II at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Bauer is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and infrastructure systems, currently leading teams at Uber in San Francisco. He moved up through hands-on roles at Uber—from SRE and marketplace platform work to senior backend engineering and staff-level responsibilities—driving migrations off legacy gateways, rewriting core rate limiting, and bringing production traffic into new datacenters and cloud environments. Comfortable in both startup and Fortune 500 contexts, he pairs systems-level infrastructure expertise (datacenter, networking, IaC) with strong service-oriented backend design. He has a proven track record of leading complex migrations and platform rewrites that measurably improved reliability and routing control. Known for pragmatic, production-first engineering, he also brings cross-functional experience coordinating ops, networking, and product teams to deliver high-impact outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (35)
system-configuration10
api9
scale8
coinbase7
build-system7
distributed-systems7
kucoin7
microservices6
bitmex6
exchange6
struct6
coinbase-api6
etcd6
bot-platform6
trading6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
locationlabs/ansible-role_kdump
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
locationlabs/ansible-role_increase-log-retention
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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