Senior Capacity Planning Engineer

Uber; United States; On-site; USD 202,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Capacity and Economics Engineering (CEE) team. You will architect systems that determine infrastructure needs, where to run, and total costs, spanning on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll own end-to-end outcomes from design to production, lead multi-team initiatives, and partner with Finance and product teams to translate forecasts into actionable roadmaps. This role emphasizes reliability and scalable data foundations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software or data engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python to solve cross-team problems.
• Advanced SQL, data modeling, and data warehousing skills.
• Experience leading cross-team engineering projects through lifecycle stages.
• Track record of owning production reliability and incident response.
• Ability to make engineering and business trade-offs with long-term impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and build long-lasting components of capacity planning stack and related services.
• Tackle high-impact problems at the intersection of forecast accuracy and cost.
• Forecasting, planning, and capacity alignment across compute, storage, and data infra.
• Lead multi-team projects from inception to production rollout and operations.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Finance, and infra owners on roadmaps.
• Own on-call and incident response for planning pipelines and services; drive root-cause fixes.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and code reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Java/Python

SQL/Data warehousing

Cross-team leadership

Incident response

System design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Hive

Flink

Workflow orchestration

Job description

Uber is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Capacity and Economics Engineering (CEE) team. You will architect systems that determine infrastructure needs, where to run, and total costs, spanning on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll own end-to-end outcomes from design to production, lead multi-team initiatives, and partner with Finance and product teams to translate forecasts into actionable roadmaps. This role emphasizes reliability and scalable data foundations.