Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Uber

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San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CA
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8 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 · Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

As a Staff Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure, you will join the Core Infrastructure Platform team to lead the architecture and evolution of systems powering global business operations. You will own the technical roadmap for critical sub-systems, identifying architectural gaps in compute and networking stacks while designing solutions to increase fleet-wide CPU utilization and accelerate ARM adoption. Your daily work involves migrating to standardized CNI/Envoy, implementing shared GPU pools, and developing agentic infrastructure tools for automated incident response. You will utilize Go, Java, or C++ to build high-availability services across hybrid-cloud environments. The role requires deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, container runtimes, and Linux kernel performance tuning to support massive compute demands for Generative AI and Autonomous Vehicle data ingestion.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the architectural evolution of compute and networking stacks from ideation to global execution.
  • Design and implement solutions to increase fleet-wide CPU utilization and accelerate ARM adoption.
  • Direct the technical strategy for multi-cloud resilience and rapid regional failover.
  • Develop "Agentic" infrastructure tools to automate alert triaging and incident response.
  • Integrate zero-trust networking and service-to-service authorization into the core platform fabric.
  • Build infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale ranking models and autonomous vehicle data ingestion.
  • Mentor mid-level engineers to foster a culture of operational excellence and technical growth.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 8+ years of full-time Software Engineering work experience (inclusive of PhD research or equivalent specialized education).
  • 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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