Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Uber

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Hybrid
Location
Sunnyvale, CASeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Posted
97 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 · Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure joins the Core Infrastructure Platform team to lead the architecture and evolution of systems powering global operations. This role involves identifying architectural gaps in compute and networking stacks, managing multi-cloud migrations, implementing shared GPU pools, and developing agentic infrastructure tools for automated incident response. The engineer will focus on improving fleet-wide CPU utilization, accelerating ARM adoption, and ensuring zero-trust networking across container platforms. Candidates must possess deep proficiency in Go, Java, or C++, along with expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes internals, container runtimes, CNI/Envoy, Linux kernel performance tuning, and eBPF. The work involves solving complex problems related to high-availability infrastructure for large-scale ranking models, autonomous vehicle data ingestion, and the massive compute demands of Generative AI within a cloud-native ecosystem.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the architectural evolution of compute and networking stacks to address infrastructure gaps.
  • Design and implement solutions to increase fleet-wide CPU utilization and accelerate ARM adoption.
  • Direct technical strategies for multi-cloud resilience and rapid regional failover capabilities.
  • Develop "Agentic" infrastructure tools to automate alert triaging and incident response.
  • Implement zero-trust networking and service-to-service authorization across the core platform.
  • Support large-scale ranking models and autonomous vehicle data ingestion through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Mentor and scale the technical capabilities of mid-level engineers within the organization.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 8+ years of full-time Software Engineering work experience.
  • Deep, hands-on proficiency in Go, Java, or C++.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and productionizing large-scale, high-availability infrastructure services.
  • Proven track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives from initial design through fleet-wide rollout.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, container runtimes (CRI), and modern networking (CNI/Envoy) (preferred).
  • Prior experience with hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud migrations and cost-optimization at a massive scale (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of operating systems, Linux kernel performance tuning, and/or eBPF (preferred).

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