Staff Software Engineer, Core Services ProdEng

Uber Technologies Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 232,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity awards

401(k) plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Uber Technologies Inc. seeks a Production Engineer to blend software engineering with reliability at scale.

You will design, build, and maintain tools that improve MTBF, TTD, and TTM, across thousands of services, while guiding practical, reliable architectures and incident response. You’ll lead end-to-end initiatives, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations, delivering scalable, observable systems and automation across Uber’s global platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience using Go, Java, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience delivering engineering solutions end-to-end, including problem definition, architecture planning, implementation, testing, and delivery.
• Ability to write clear technical proposals and RFCs, and drive engineering alignment through design documents and discussions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software that improves the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production services across data centers and regions.
• Lead engineering initiatives end-to-end within the team and across Uber Engineering to improve reliability via automation, standards, tooling, and reusable frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineers to understand services and guide toward reliable architectures and implementations.
• Apply SRE principles such as observability, testing, on-call practices, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to improve MTBF, TTD, and TTM.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrences.

Job description

About the Role

Engineering at Uber means building for real-world impact under real-world constraints. The problems are complex, the systems are massive, and the pace is fast. You'll need to make smart decisions with imperfect information and own them. If you think in systems, thrive in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, and care about building things that actually work, this is where you'll grow.

Core Services Production Engineering is a software engineering team, not a traditional operations or systems administration team. We solve reliability problems by writing code—building chaos testing tools, traffic engineering and dependency safety frameworks, automation tools, and observability primitives.

As a Production Engineer, you will blend multiple domains of software engineering to ensure Uber's services run reliably at massive scale, while improving compute efficiency and accelerating developer productivity across a platform that serves millions of users around the world.

Our main focus areas include:

• Chaos testing tools and applications
• Dependency safety frameworks and tooling
• Observability and alerting platforms
• Graceful degradation

If you've worked in an SRE, Production Engineering, or Reliability Engineering role with a strong software engineering focus—or are energized by solving complex engineering challenges and building tools that empower an entire engineering organization—you belong on this team.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain software that improves the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of thousands of stateless and stateful production services distributed across multiple data center zones and regions.
• Lead engineering initiatives end-to-end within the team, across the Production Engineering organization, and throughout Uber Engineering to improve reliability through automation, engineering standards, developer tooling, and reusable frameworks.
• Work closely with engineers to understand their services and guide them toward practical, reliable architectures and implementations.
• Apply SRE principles such as observability, integration testing, load testing, chaos testing, on-call practices, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to improve mean time between failures (MTBF), time to detection (TTD), and time to mitigation (TTM).
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to and lead the mitigation of production incidents, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurring issues.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience using Go, Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Experience delivering engineering solutions end-to-end, including problem definition, architecture planning, implementation, testing, and delivery.
• Ability to write clear technical proposals and Requests for Comments (RFCs), and drive engineering alignment across teams through written design documents and verbal discussions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), reliability engineering, or incident management at a large-scale technology company.
• Experience in platform or infrastructure engineering, including disciplines such as compute platforms, software networking, online storage, developer platforms, or observability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects or teams while remaining hands‑on with software engineering and technical implementation.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 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.

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our 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. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

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.