Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Uber

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Hybrid

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Location
San Francisco, CA
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5 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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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

The Sr Software Engineer - Web Platform joins the Web Platform team to maintain the foundation of all web applications. This role involves owning the build, test, and CI systems for a large web monorepo to ensure code is validated and shipped reliably. You will build developer tooling to improve productivity, drive fleet-wide framework changes, and shape technical direction through design docs. Key responsibilities include managing incremental and cached builds and reproducible pipelines. Required skills include TypeScript, Node.js, and experience with the modern JavaScript toolchain including Vite, Rspack, webpack, and esbuild. Candidates should have experience with monorepo build systems like Bazel, Buck2, or Nx, as well as CI/CD platforms like Buildkite or GitHub Actions. The work focuses on web infrastructure and framework capabilities.

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What you'll do

  • Build developer tooling to improve product engineer productivity and application reliability.
  • Own and scale the build, test, and CI systems for a large web monorepo.
  • Drive fleet-wide changes and new framework capabilities across multiple engineering teams.
  • Shape the technical direction of the platform through design documents and open-source contributions.
  • Ensure reproducible, containerized builds from development through production.
  • Diagnose and resolve slow, flaky, or non-hermetic builds within the monorepo.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives that impact company-wide services.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years working on build systems, CI/CD, or developer tooling.
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years working on build systems, CI/CD, or developer tooling (preferred).
  • Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience, including debugging and profiling Node processes and build tooling.
  • Working knowledge of the modern JavaScript toolchain and at least one major web framework, ideally React.
  • Hands-on experience with a large-scale build system in a monorepo, including diagnosing slow, flaky, or non-hermetic builds.
  • Experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with reproducible, containerized builds from development through production.
  • A track record of leading technical initiatives that affected many engineers or services.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and service-oriented or distributed systems (preferred).

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