Senior Staff Engineer

Uber

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Location
San Francisco, CANew York, NYSunnyvale, CA
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32 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 Staff Engineer

The Sr Staff Engineer - Uber One joins the Membership organization to architect next-generation member experiences and benefits for the Uber One program. This role involves designing and building highly reliable, scalable systems that power initiatives across UberEats and UberX. You will drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design while managing complex tradeoffs between various technical designs. Key responsibilities include owning technical excellence through architecture reviews, reducing systemic technical debt, and mentoring senior engineers. The position requires expert proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, or C++. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of distributed systems, algorithms, and data structures to solve ambiguous technical challenges within a marketplace-heavy environment requiring high consistency and global reliability.

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What you'll do

  • Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems to power new initiatives across UberEats and UberX.
  • Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design.
  • Own technical excellence by conducting architecture reviews and reducing systemic technical debt.
  • Define engineering standards to improve development velocity and quality across the organization.
  • Mentor and coach staff and senior engineers by providing technical guidance and thought leadership.
  • Lead technical projects end-to-end from inception through global deployment and productionization.
  • Establish standards for testing, monitoring, alerting systems, and organizational incident management.
  • Partner with cross-functional leadership to identify and build impactful opportunities for the Uber One program.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of work experience in software engineering building large scale systems.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Expert level technical skills in one or more programming languages including Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, or C++.
  • Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.
  • Proven experience owning critical large-scale platforms and infrastructure services.
  • Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end from inception through global deployment and productionization.
  • Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems while overseeing complex incident management.
  • Marketplace experience creating 0 to 1 features and optimizing real-time platforms (preferred).

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