Senior Backend Engineer: Real-Time Low-Latency Microservices

Uber Technologies Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Employee benefits

Job summary

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced L5 Backend Engineer on the Pricing & Incentives team in Sunnyvale, CA.

You will architect low-latency microservices and real-time decision systems that power Uber's global marketplace, collaborating across product, applied science, and operations to turn complex marketplace problems into scalable solutions. You will own the software lifecycle end-to-end, from design docs to production rollout, including debugging live issues and managing

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering or related role.
• Experience leading org-wide engineering projects end-to-end.
• Proven incident management and on-call leadership.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect joint optimization systems across demand levers to unify pipelines.
• Own the software lifecycle end-to-end from design docs to production rollout.
• Collaborate with Product, Applied Science, and Ops to translate marketplace problems into robust designs.

Skills

Backend engineering

Low-latency systems

Leadership

On-call incident management

Architecture tradeoffs

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Flink

Spark

Apache Pinot

Druid

Hadoop

Job description

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced L5 Backend Engineer on the Pricing & Incentives team in Sunnyvale, CA.

You will architect low-latency microservices and real-time decision systems that power Uber's global marketplace, collaborating across product, applied science, and operations to turn complex marketplace problems into scalable solutions. You will own the software lifecycle end-to-end, from design docs to production rollout, including debugging live issues and managing