Software Engineer II, Backend - Production Engineering

What You'll Do

- Design, build, and maintain systems that directly support how people and things move in the real world - where performance, safety, and scale can't be separated.
- Solve messy, high-impact problems in fast-changing environments - often without a clear starting point or obvious solution.
- Work with internal stakeholders to deeply understand their services and architect solutions to their reliability issues, building tooling and services to aid reliability Uber-wide.
- Debug Uber-scale reliability issues, working across multiple services and domains to improve availability for our customers.
- Own your work end-to-end: from the first design doc and collaborative planning to debugging production issues when stakes are high.
- Champion engineering best practices like code health, testing, and design clarity - even when time is tight and pressure is high.
- Collaborate across disciplines to ship thoughtful, practical solutions at speed and advocate for Production Engineering and reliability across the company.

Basic Qualifications

- 4+ years working in Go, Java, C++, or Python.
- Experience building, maintaining, and debugging production services or platforms.
- Experience implementing complex software architectures with multiple dependencies.
- Experience analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems.
- Experience communicating with technical teams and leadership to collect requirements and describe technical designs.
- Strong technical writing skills for creating detailed documentation and operations runbooks.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience shipping high-quality product features on schedule and with high velocity.
- Experience assisting engineers in solving production incidents and providing guidance during postmortems.
- Ability to think in systems and stay calm under pressure.
- Flexibility to collaborate with stakeholders across different timezones.

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.

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.

\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.

Client-provided location(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job ID: Uber-154558

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-07T00:21:20