Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for talented engineers to join the Storage Platform. We provide standardized, integrated and fully managed database solutions. Our offerings include proprietary and open-source database solutions that support large scale workloads, high QoS and are dynamically scalable and reliable. Together with that we provide the infrastructure that connects online databases to various product platforms that powers business decisions at Uber.

What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Design, development, test and roll out a scalable, reliable, operable and performant storage platform features, improvements, frameworks, ecosystems.
2. Improve reliability, efficiency through design and automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitoring
3. Engage and support stakeholders and collaborate across teams to ensure that the storage platform and ecosystem we're building works seamlessly across different storage backends and best serves application engineers.
4. Support your fellow teammates, review the team's technical design, code, and documentation
5. You feel ownership over everything you touch. You pride yourself on efficient monitoring, strong documentation, and proper test coverage and you call something "done" only when these are in place
6. You believe that you can achieve more on a team - that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement and you help others by returning the favor.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.)
2. 6+ years software development experience.
3. Experience implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies.
4. Experience coding with Go, Java, C++ or Python.
5. Experience in at least one scalable storage or database platform

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Understanding or hand-on experience on distributed storage platform and/or databases, cache, datastore
2. Experience developing or operating high-load distributed systems, build monitoring systems
3. Experience in using and contributing to open source technologies
4. Good knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

Client-provided location(s): Sunnyvale, CA

Job ID: Uber-151996

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-13T00:29:08