Senior Surge Pricing Systems Engineer

Uber; 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's Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Eater Real Time Pricing squad to shape surge pricing algorithms that power the delivery marketplace. You will own end-to-end pricing, forecasting, and decision signals that influence matching, courier pricing, and promotions.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, partner with science and product, and push for operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend or real-time data processing.
• Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java, or 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.

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

Backend engineering

Go/Java/Python

Distributed systems

Real-time data processing

Technical leadership

Education

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

Job description

Uber's Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Eater Real Time Pricing squad to shape surge pricing algorithms that power the delivery marketplace. You will own end-to-end pricing, forecasting, and decision signals that influence matching, courier pricing, and promotions.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, partner with science and product, and push for operational excellence.