Senior Staff Software Engineer - Membership

- Drive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, holdout analysis) to optimize membership coverage, conversion, engagement, and savings delivery
- Architect for scale and reliability - designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks, benefits applications, and personalized offer computations with low latency and high availability
- Mentor and elevate engineers across the organization, including Senior and Staff-level ICs, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and operational rigor
- Shape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership - translating membership growth and engagement objectives into engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions
- Deliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard, championing best practices in service architecture, data management, and deployment

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments
- Strong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications
- Demonstrated ability leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building and scaling membership, subscription, or loyalty platform systems
- Proven track record of setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (50+ engineers across multiple teams)
- Experience with full-stack product engineering - building consumer-facing features that span backend services, APIs, and client integration points
- Deep experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing at scale, and data-driven product development
- Background in pricing, personalization, or recommendation systems
- Experience with multi-sided marketplace dynamics and understanding of how membership programs drive platform network effects
- Proficiency in languages such as Go, Java, or Python, with strong foundations in performance optimization and debugging across complex stacks
- Experience designing systems that span multiple business verticals (e.g., Rides, Delivery, Grocery) with shared platform layers
- Track record of driving both technical innovation and raising organizational engineering standards across a large, distributed team
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort navigating ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and LLM-powered systems, with a track record of driving AI adoption across engineering teams to accelerate development velocity and product innovation

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. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/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-157153

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-04-03T00:12:37