Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure
Uber
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This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $156,000–$218,975 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $267k versus about $187k for comparable roles.
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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.
Uber currently has 95 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $232,000–$232,000 across 76 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Staff Engineer (L6) at Uber’s Core Infrastructure Platform in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, or Sunnyvale, you will lead the technical strategy and evolution of an ecosystem handling 1M+ concurrent trips and massive-scale ML workloads. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting strategic efficiency through ARM adoption, scaling GPU pools for Generative AI, modernizing the data plane towards industry standards like Kubernetes and Envoy, enforcing foundations and reliability with standardized safe-deployment practices, integrating AI-driven automation to enhance developer productivity, and mentoring Staff+ Engineers while influencing cross-organizational engineering standards. The role requires expertise in Go, Java, or C++, deep systems knowledge of Kubernetes and container runtimes, proficiency in cloud-native networking, and experience optimizing software for ARM architecture and specialized AI hardware.
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