Sr Staff Engineer – Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Various benefits

Job summary

Uber for the Membership org seeks a senior software engineering leader to architect and scale member experiences across UberEats and UberX. You will drive platform evolution, design robust systems, and mentor engineers to improve velocity and quality.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features, own technical debt reduction, and raise observability and incident response standards for the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience in software engineering building large scale systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Expert level skills in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++).
• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.
• Proven experience owning critical and large-scale platforms and reducing systemic technical debt.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end through all lifecycle stages.

Responsibilities

• Identify new opportunities to evolve the Uber One program across UberEats and UberX.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, Data Science and Designers to design, build, and optimize products used by millions of members globally.
• Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems to serve millions of users and resolve technical tradeoffs.
• Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices, and API design.
• Own architecture reviews, observability, and incident response across the organization.
• Mentor and coach staff and senior engineers with thought leadership and guidance.

Skills

Go/Java/Python

Distributed systems

System design

Code reviews

Observability

Incident management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

About The Role And Team Uber has evolved from a ride-hailing service into an all-in-one platform, connecting users globally through various on-demand offerings across UberX and UberEats. To unite this ecosystem, we introduced Uber One-a paid membership program designed to elevate user experiences with priority service and exclusive perks. Under one unified membership, members unlock enhanced pricing, upgraded rides, dedicated customer support, premium partner benefits, and elevated service quality.

With more than 50 million global Uber One members driving over half of our total company revenue, the program is a critical engine for company-wide growth across our core offerings while shaping how users interact with our expanding ecosystem and new company big bets. Join us as we drive Uber’s growth and shape expansion into new verticals.

In this role on the Membership org, you will shape the future of the program by architecting next-generation member experiences and benefits in close partnership with cross-functional teams. You will oversee our platform architecture and design highly reliable, scalable systems that power new initiatives across both UberEats and UberX. If you excel at tackling complex technical challenges, crafting impactful products, and driving key business outcomes, the Membership org is the perfect fit for you.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Sr Staff/Director+ level XFN across the org to identify new impactful opportunities to evolve the Uber One program across UberEats and UberX
• Collaborate deeply with Sr Staff/Director+ engineers, PMs, Data Science and Designers from across the company to design, build, and optimize products used by millions of members globally
• Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems designed to resolve ambiguous technical challenges to serve millions of users. Align the org on complex tradeoffs between various different technical designs and solutions
• Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design to simplify future program needs and evolve with industry trends
• Own technical excellence by driving architecture reviews, identifying and reducing systemic technical debt, and raising the bar for observability and incident response across the organization.
• Define standards and cultivate engineering culture and technical excellence to drive up engineering velocity and quality across the org
• Mentor and coach other staff and senior engineers by providing thought leadership and technical guidance

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience in software engineering building large scale systems
• Bachelor’s (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Expert level technical skills, including proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++) and code reviews.
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.
• Proven experience in owning critical and large-scale platforms, infra services. Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end through all lifecycle stages, from inception through design through global deployment and productionization.
• Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, while overseeing the execution of complex incident management at an organizational level.
• Demonstrated leadership in building relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally around a technical vision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Marketplace experience – Uber’s business model is marketplace heavy and prior experience creating 0 to 1 features and optimizing marketplaces is preferred. Experience in real-time marketplace platforms requiring high consistency and global reliability.
• Impact Mindset – (1) Ability to navigate complex org and company business needs (2) Ability to identify consumer needs through user research and data understand work (3) Bringing those together to build products and systems that bring value to our customers and deliver company impact
• Strong Cross Company Technical Collaboration – (1) Strong ability to collaborate and communicate technically with multiple teams across the company (2) Strong ability to deep dive into complex technical systems owned by other organizations (3) Create clean technical solutions that factor in complexities across multiple systems & ultimately solve for multiple team goals
• Full stack experience – Ability to design, build, debug and optimize full stack applications that run across our backend servers to our Android and iOS apps

For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year – USD $297,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year – USD $297,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year – USD $297,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber’s bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber’s culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.