Senior Real-Time Pricing Engineer — Surge & Marketplace

Uber; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 224,000; Full time

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Job summary

Uber’s Engineering team in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Eater Real Time Pricing group to evolve surge pricing algorithms and real-time decision signals that power the delivery marketplace.

You will own complex pricing problems, forecast demand, and collaborate with data science, product, and operations to turn models into production systems while mentoring others and shaping the roadmap for measurable marketplace impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend development, distributed systems, or real-time data processing.
• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or functional programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python).
• Track record of leading the design and delivery of complex, multi-quarter projects across team boundaries.
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency production services.
• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of major surge pricing and forecasting workstreams end-to-end - from ambiguous problem statement through architecture, rollout, and measurable marketplace impact.
• Set technical direction for real-time pricing systems that serve decision signals to matching, courier pricing, and other downstream consumers at high throughput and low latency.
• Drive engineering rigor across the team: design reviews, operational excellence, and systems that degrade gracefully under extreme demand - and be a calm, decisive presence when production is on the line.
• Partner closely with Applied Science, Product, and Ops to turn models and marketplace insight into robust production systems, and to influence roadmap direction without formal authority.
• Mentor and grow engineers through code review, design guidance, and technical leadership by example.
• Identify and pay down structural technical debt, balancing long-term system health against a fast-moving business.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Uber’s Engineering team in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Eater Real Time Pricing group to evolve surge pricing algorithms and real-time decision signals that power the delivery marketplace.

You will own complex pricing problems, forecast demand, and collaborate with data science, product, and operations to turn models into production systems while mentoring others and shaping the roadmap for measurable marketplace impact.