In this role, you will establish platform reliability standards and drive AI driven innovation helping the team’s mission to deliver magical communication experience to hundreds of millions of riders, drivers, couriers, and enterprise partners globally. You will act as a mentor to senior engineering talent, and be the principal architect behind high-stakes, large-scale distributed systems. You will define the multi-year architectural roadmap for core backend microservices, real-time streaming engines, vendor integrations, and interactive, multimodal conversational UI frameworks across web and mobile. By integrating state-of-the-art conversational AI models and real-time speech orchestration layers into core platform infrastructure, you will ensure sub-second latencies, high fault tolerance, and zero-downtime availability. Through intelligent automation and real-time observability, you will set the benchmark for AI-driven communication platforms at Uber scale.
This is a high-visibility, transformative role interfacing directly with Uber's core marketplace teams, safety, fraud, customer care, and AI infrastructure organizations. If you are a battle-tested technical leader, strategic architect, and collaborative executor, we invite you to join us in defining the future of AI driven real-time communication platforms.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
What the Candidate Will Do ----
Architect the next-generation global Communications and Conversational AI Platform across all current and expanding business lines, including Mobility, Delivery, Freight, and Enterprise marketplace offerings.
Actively seek out the toughest technology and engineering problems and solve them with little to no guidance.
Own large opportunities and initiatives and drive clarity, convergence and closure across teams.
Take the larger vision or challenge and distill it down with the leadership team into strategies and plans including trade-offs required to realize the vision.
Be a role model on acting with good judgement and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects.
Provide overarching technical vision and architecture for real-time voice, streaming media, asynchronous messaging, and AI-driven conversational orchestration engines.
Drive the architectural integration of voice/chat Conversational AI services, real-time audio streams (ASR/TTS/Speech-to-Speech), LLMs, and automated intervention engines across Uber's infrastructure.
Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executive leadership and a dedicated mentor for senior engineering talent, fostering a culture of technical rigor, architectural clarity, and decisive alignment.
Basic Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Experience: 10+ years of professional full-time software engineering experience.
Technical Proficiency: Strong expertise in modern backend languages—specifically Go, Java, or C++.
Extensive backend engineering and distributed systems experience.
Experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available systems.
Proven technical leadership across multiple teams and complex initiatives.
Strong system design, architecture, and cross-functional communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Deep, industry leading expertise in one or more technology spaces in the communication domain.
Proven track record building and scaling Conversational AI platforms, real-time streaming voice/chat pipelines, WebRTC, LLM agent orchestration, or natural language understanding systems.
Deep domain experience in telecommunications, CPaaS integrations (Twilio, Infobip, Sinch, etc.), or real-time media streaming infrastructure.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.
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.
