Sr Staff Engineer, JVM

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Developer Platform teams based in Amsterdam. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for someone passionate about building platforms that enable thousands of engineers to move fast and ship reliably at scale.

You will drive the design, evolution, and cohesion of critical backend and developer infrastructure services used across Uber's engineering organization. This includes build and test platforms, CI/CD, developer tooling, IDE integrations, and language-specific frameworks. You'll play a key role in aligning technical direction across JVM-based services, partnering closely with global counterparts, and mentoring senior engineers across multiple teams.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Lead the architecture and roadmap for developer platform initiatives in Amsterdam
2. Drive cross-team alignment and consistency across build systems, deployment tooling, and JVM-based frameworks
3. Deeply engage with engineers across the org to identify gaps and build long-term platform solutions
4. Act as a technical partner to engineering managers and product leaders, contributing to org-wide strategy
5. Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and technical direction to senior/staff-level engineers
6. Influence global platform initiatives and ensure strong collaboration across sites

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering roles
2. Proven experience operating at Staff+ level in large-scale engineering environments
3. Deep expertise in the JVM ecosystem, with hands-on experience in both Java and Kotlin
4. Prior experience with monorepos, Bazel or similar, or internal developer platforms
5. Track record of building and scaling distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer-facing platforms
6. Strong architectural thinking, especially in high-scale, multi-team environments
7. Experience influencing engineering strategy across orgs and locations
8. Exceptional communication and mentorship skills

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Build/test infrastructure to data-intensive workflows powered by Apache Spark and other distributed systems.
2. Contributions to open-source JVM tooling or frameworks
3. Experience building SDKs, internal libraries, backend or mobile infrastructure is a plus

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-146831

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-31T00:39:49