Senior Staff Engineer — Real-Time Streaming Platform

Uber; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 232,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Streaming Data Platform in Seattle. You will shape architecture for real-time data movement, fault-tolerant streams, and multi-tenant infrastructure at Uber scale, partnering with product and data teams to deliver reliable, low-latency systems.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural evolution, and establish engineering standards across organizations, balancing long-term platform investments with delivering impact today.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems or data-intensive services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles including consistency, replication, consensus, fault tolerance, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Proven experience architecting high-performance, highly available systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, Go, C++, Scala, Python, or Rust).
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure or stream processing tech and their tradeoffs.
• Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Ability to mentor engineers and set engineering standards across orgs.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Math, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for Uber's streaming data platform, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability.
• Lead the design of large-scale distributed streaming systems addressing data delivery, coordination, consistency, fault tolerance, and availability.
• Drive modernization to simplify systems and remove bottlenecks for efficiency.
• Set performance, reliability, and cost targets using benchmarking and workload analysis.
• Architect multi-tenant infrastructure to support diverse workloads with high throughput and low latency.
• Build automation, observability, capacity management, and self-service tooling to improve developer productivity.
• Evaluate new technologies and inform long-term platform roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership for cross-organizational initiatives and production adoption.
• Establish engineering excellence through reliability standards and root-cause analysis.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the org.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, data engineering, and product teams to align capabilities with Uber's real-time data needs.

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

Backend development

Leadership

Mentoring

Performance analysis

Cross-team collaboration

Java/Go/C++/Python

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Flink

Spark

Cloud services

Job description

Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Streaming Data Platform in Seattle. You will shape architecture for real-time data movement, fault-tolerant streams, and multi-tenant infrastructure at Uber scale, partnering with product and data teams to deliver reliable, low-latency systems.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural evolution, and establish engineering standards across organizations, balancing long-term platform investments with delivering impact today.