Uber
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About the Role As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you are the Global Technical Anchor for systems powering every Uber trip and transaction.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you are the Global Technical Anchor for systems powering every Uber trip and transaction. You define the multi-year vision for the backend ecosystem, acting as a peer to Directors and VPs to ground Uber’s most ambitious business goals in technical reality.
Technical Strategy: Define the "North Star" multi-year roadmap and lead high-stakes "buy vs. build" evaluations on the Architecture Review Board.
Execution & Excellence: Directly tackle high-risk challenges, driving a company-wide shift toward "Zero-Trust" and "Always-On" architectures.
Mentorship & Influence: Act as a "leader of leaders" by mentoring Staff Engineers and serving as a strategic advisor to VP/CTO level leadership.
Experience: 12+ years of experience delivering massive-scale distributed systems.
Technical Depth: Expert-level understanding of distributed theory (CAP theorem, Paxos/Raft) and technical transformations.
Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
Open Source: Significant contributions to major open-source infrastructure or distributed systems projects.
Domain Expertise: Deep vertical expertise in FinTech or Security at a global "Big Tech" scale.
Architectural Migration: Experience migrating monolithic architectures to modular or cell-based paradigms.
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