Staff Software Engineer, Core Services Reliability

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

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.