Senior Real-Time Streaming Backend Engineer

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

Job summary

Uber seeks a software engineer to design and maintain backend infrastructure for real-time streaming at scale. You will help evolve the platform to support global deployments, ensure low-latency connectivity, and reliability across client networks, while collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

The role requires 5+ years in software development, proficiency in Go or Java, and strong networking knowledge. Master’s degree and AV/cloud experience are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, including networking and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in a backend programming language such as Go, Java, or a comparable language.
• Familiar with networking protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, and UDP.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend infrastructure for real-time streaming use cases at Uber.
• Advance the streaming infrastructure's global scale while balancing performance and reliability.
• Develop automated evaluation framework for streaming protocols and platforms against application requirements and operational needs.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to integrate their systems and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Diagnose and resolve connectivity issues, performance regressions, service incidents across clients and backend services.
• Elevate the team's engineering quality by taking part in design and code reviews and participating in the team's on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

WebSockets/QUIC

Job description

Uber seeks a software engineer to design and maintain backend infrastructure for real-time streaming at scale. You will help evolve the platform to support global deployments, ensure low-latency connectivity, and reliability across client networks, while collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

The role requires 5+ years in software development, proficiency in Go or Java, and strong networking knowledge. Master’s degree and AV/cloud experience are a plus.