Senior Staff Backend Architect - Ultra-Low Latency

Uber; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 267,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to lead architecture of distributed systems powering the marketplace. You will drive sub-50ms latency, 1M+ requests per second, and global availability, while shaping developer-friendly platforms for ML and product teams.

You will partner with product, data science, and ops leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions, own architectural reviews, and reduce tech debt while raising observability and incident-response

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend development and distributed systems experience.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale engineering initiatives.
• Experience driving platform evolution and API design.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of highly available distributed systems.
• Architect systems handling 1M+ requests per second with high availability.
• Drive technical strategy for platform evolution and API design.
• Build developer tools to simplify ML and product Iteration.
• Mentor teams and uphold observability and incident response.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

System architecture

Leadership

Performance optimization

Go/Java/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Uber in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to lead architecture of distributed systems powering the marketplace. You will drive sub-50ms latency, 1M+ requests per second, and global availability, while shaping developer-friendly platforms for ML and product teams.

You will partner with product, data science, and ops leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions, own architectural reviews, and reduce tech debt while raising observability and incident-response