Collaborate deeply with Sr Staff/Director+ engineers, PMs, Data Science and Designers from across the company to design, build, and optimize products used by millions of members globally
Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems designed to resolve ambiguous technical challenges to serve millions of users. Align the org on complex tradeoffs between various different technical designs and solutions
Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design to simplify future program needs and evolve with industry trends
Own technical excellence by driving architecture reviews, identifying and reducing systemic technical debt, and raising the bar for observability and incident response across the organization.
Define standards and cultivate engineering culture and technical excellence to drive up engineering velocity and quality across the org
Mentor and coach other staff and senior engineers by providing thought leadership and technical guidance
Basic Qualifications
10+ years work experience in software engineering building large scale systems
Bachelor's (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Expert level technical skills, including proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++) and code reviews.
Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.
Proven experience in owning critical and large-scale platforms, infra services. Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.
Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end through all lifecycle stages, from inception through design through global deployment and productionization.
Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, while overseeing the execution of complex incident management at an organizational level.
Demonstrated leadership in building relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally around a technical vision.
Preferred Qualifications
Marketplace experience - Uber’s business model is marketplace heavy and prior experience creating 0 to 1 features and optimizing marketplaces is preferred. Experience in real-time marketplace platforms requiring high consistency and global reliability.
Impact Mindset - (1) Ability to navigate complex org and company business needs (2) Ability to identify consumer needs through user research and data understand work (3) Bringing those together to build products and systems that bring value to our customers and deliver company impact
Strong Cross Company Technical Collaboration - (1) Strong ability to collaborate and communicate technically with multiple teams across the company (2) Strong ability to deep dive into complex technical systems owned by other organizations (3) Create clean technical solutions that factor in complexities across multiple systems & ultimately solve for multiple team goals
Full stack experience - Ability to design, build, debug and optimize full stack applications that run across our backend servers to our Android and iOS apps
For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 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.
