Senior Streaming Platform Architect

Uber Technologies Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming Data Platform to shape architecture and evolve critical real-time data infrastructure used across the organization.

You will lead design of scalable streaming systems, optimize performance, and drive cross-team architectural initiatives while mentoring senior engineers and aligning with Uber's strategic roadmap.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, replication, consensus, fault tolerance, concurrency, distributed coordination, and failure recovery.
• Proven experience architecting high-performance, highly available systems that operate at significant scale with stringent throughput, latency, reliability, and durability requirements.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, Go, C++, Scala, Python, or Rust, with demonstrated ability to design and implement complex production systems.
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure, distributed messaging systems, stream processing platforms, or related technologies, including the ability to reason about their architectural tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated track record of providing technical leadership for complex, multi-team engineering initiatives, from architecture and technical strategy through implementation and production adoption.
• Strong expertise in system performance analysis, scalability engineering, and troubleshooting complex distributed infrastructure under production workloads.
• Proven ability to identify fundamental architectural challenges, evaluate alternative solutions, and make sound technical and business tradeoffs with long-term organizational impact.
• Experience influencing technical direction, establishing engineering standards, and driving alignment across teams and organizational boundaries.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for Uber's streaming data platform, ensuring its long-term scalability, reliability, performance, and extensibility as business and infrastructure requirements evolve.
• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed streaming systems, solving fundamental challenges in data delivery, distributed coordination, consistency, fault tolerance, resource management, and high availability.
• Drive architectural innovation and modernization across streaming infrastructure, identifying opportunities to simplify complex systems, eliminate scalability bottlenecks, and improve overall platform efficiency.
• Establish technical strategies for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, leveraging deep systems expertise, benchmarking, and workload analysis to optimize compute, storage, memory, and network utilization.
• Architect highly resilient, multi-tenant infrastructure that supports diverse workloads with demanding throughput, latency, durability, and availability requirements.
• Build and champion foundational platform capabilities, including automation, observability, capacity management, and self-service tooling, that improve developer productivity and reduce operational complexity across engineering organizations.
• Anticipate emerging technical challenges and opportunities, evaluating new technologies and architectural approaches to inform strategic investments and long-term platform roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-organizational initiatives, driving alignment among stakeholders and ensuring successful execution from initial strategy through production adoption.
• Establish engineering excellence and operational best practices for mission-critical infrastructure, including architecture reviews, reliability standards, incident prevention, and systematic root-cause analysis.
• Mentor and elevate senior engineers, fostering technical depth, sound architectural judgment, and a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, data engineering, and product engineering organizations to align platform capabilities with Uber's evolving real-time data needs and broader technical strategy.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend languages

System performance

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Bachelor's degree

Cross-team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Flink

Spark

Job description

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming Data Platform to shape architecture and evolve critical real-time data infrastructure used across the organization.

You will lead design of scalable streaming systems, optimize performance, and drive cross-team architectural initiatives while mentoring senior engineers and aligning with Uber's strategic roadmap.