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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.
Sr Software Engineer - Engineer joins the engineering team to architect mission-critical systems powering the foundation of trust across a global marketplace. This role involves designing and building long-lasting artifacts to reduce complexity, increasing developer velocity, and solving high-impact problems at the intersection of low latency and high correctness. The engineer will lead organization-wide development of key frameworks, mentor other engineers, and translate ambiguous business requirements into production-ready technical roadmaps. Key responsibilities include overseeing incident management processes and managing on-call rotations. Required skills include advanced proficiency in SQL and data warehousing, with experience in real-time streaming frameworks like Flink or Spark, OLAP systems such as Apache Pinot or Druid, and the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem. The role focuses on building scalable distributed systems to manage payment accuracy and pricing decision simulation platforms.
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Architect and build mission-critical systems for payment processing and pricing decision simulations.
Design long-lasting engineering artifacts to reduce complexity and increase developer velocity.
Solve high-impact problems involving low latency and high correctness in large-scale systems.
Translate ambiguous business requirements from Product, Science, and Ops into technical roadmaps.
Lead the development and adoption of organization-wide frameworks and coding best practices.
Identify architectural gaps and proactively address potential issues before they impact the marketplace.
Oversee incident management processes and direct on-call rotations following global best practices.
Mentor other engineers and serve as a technical brand ambassador for the engineering organization.
What we're looking for
6+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Advanced proficiency in SQL and data warehousing with the ability to identify and reconcile architectural gaps.
Experience leading organization-wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages including inception, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and operations.
Proven track record of overseeing incident management processes and directing on-call rotations.
Demonstrated ability to make sound engineering and business tradeoffs for long-term impact.
Experience building high-performance, scalable distributed systems at a 100M+ user scale (preferred).
Expertise in real-time streaming frameworks, OLAP systems, or Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem tools (preferred).