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Hybrid
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Posted
26 days ago

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Uber Technologies, Inc. is the world’s largest, San Francisco-based mobile technology platform facilitating on-demand ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats), and freight transportation across approximately 70 countries.

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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Media Platform team in Sunnyvale, you will lead the design and evolution of high-performance distributed backend systems that process large-scale video and media workloads reliably and cost-efficiently. Your responsibilities include architecting scalable infrastructure for media ingestion, processing, intelligence, and delivery across global regions while improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-throughput pipelines. You will also design systems to integrate ML inference workloads efficiently within media platforms and mentor engineers to enhance engineering excellence and operational rigor. The role requires 10+ years of backend experience with expertise in distributed systems, large-scale service architecture, and proficiency in Go, Java, C++, or similar languages. Additional skills include building high-throughput services, familiarity with ML-powered systems, and a deep understanding of privacy-aware and compliance-driven system design at scale.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and scaling of distributed backend systems for media ingestion, processing, and delivery.
  • Enhance performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-throughput media pipelines.
  • Develop infrastructure to integrate and execute ML inference workloads within media systems efficiently.
  • Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions across the Media Platform team.
  • Mentor engineers to improve engineering excellence, operational rigor, and system design.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience with expertise in distributed systems and large-scale service architecture.
  • Proficiency in Go, Java, C++, or similar languages for system design, performance optimization, and reliability.
  • Experience building high-throughput, low-latency services handling large data volumes (streaming, storage, media).
  • Familiarity with ML-powered systems including model inference integration and optimizing ML workloads in production.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and experience designing privacy-aware or compliance-driven systems.

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