Staff Software Engineer: Real-Time Streaming Data Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Streaming Data Platform in Sunnyvale, CA. You will shape the architecture of real-time data infrastructure that powers Uber's marketplace, enabling scalable, reliable, and low-latency data pipelines across teams.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on design, with responsibility for building foundational streaming capabilities and guiding engineering excellence across organizational boundaries.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles including consistency, replication, consensus, fault tolerance, concurrency and failure recovery.
• Proven track record architecting high-performance, highly available systems at scale.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, Go, C++, Scala, Python, or Rust).
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure, distributed messaging systems, or stream processing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for Uber's streaming data platform.
• Lead design and evolution of large-scale distributed streaming systems.
• Drive modernization to simplify systems and remove bottlenecks.
• Establish strategies for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Mentor senior engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with multiple orgs to align platform capabilities with business needs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend programming

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Flink

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Streaming Data Platform in Sunnyvale, CA. You will shape the architecture of real-time data infrastructure that powers Uber's marketplace, enabling scalable, reliable, and low-latency data pipelines across teams.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on design, with responsibility for building foundational streaming capabilities and guiding engineering excellence across organizational boundaries.