Senior Software Engineer, Python Platform

About the Role

At Uber, Python powers mission-critical systems across AI/ML, data platforms, and backend services. The Python Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that enables thousands of engineers to develop, test, and ship reliable Python systems at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead complex, cross-cutting initiatives that improve the health, scalability, and developer experience of Uber's Python ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of build systems, developer tooling, production infrastructure, and ML/data workflows shaping how Python is built and operated across the company.

If you're passionate about solving hard platform problems, enabling other engineers to move faster, and raising the bar for production quality, we'd love to talk to you.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Lead the design and implementation of large-scale improvements to Uber's Python build systems, tooling, and developer workflows.
2. Architect reliable, scalable solutions that improve performance, testability, observability, and operational excellence across the ecosystem.
3. Drive initiatives that reduce tech debt, improve monorepo health, and enable safe, continuous upgrades of Python and dependencies.
4. Partner with ML, data, and backend teams to simplify and unify development workflows.
5. Own projects end-to-end from problem definition and design through production rollout and long-term operation.
6. Improve engineering quality through strong design reviews, testing strategy, monitoring standards, and documentation.
7. Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 7+ years of professional software development experience
2. Strong expertise in Python and large-scale backend systems
3. Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production
4. Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end
5. Demonstrated commitment to operational excellence, including reliability, monitoring, and incident management in production systems
6. Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to raising the engineering bar within a team

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience building developer platforms, internal tools, or infrastructure at scale
2. Experience with Bazel or other hermetic build systems
3. Experience with dependency/package management systems
4. Familiarity with ML or data infrastructure
5. Experience improving CI/CD systems or large monorepos
6. Contributions to open-source tooling ecosystems

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 fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.