Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Earner Access is a sub-unit of Earners Engineering with focus on building systems for Earners and Fleet Partners to discover, onboard and become compliant for various earning opportunities across Uber's portfolio of services. We are on a multi year roadmap to build the world's largest Gig Platform. As part of this team you will have direct responsibility for critical systems and processes. You will take ownership of essential features. You will also design and build high quality, scalable systems making earner platforms reliable and efficient. Your work will directly impact the lives of millions of Uber's partners (drivers, couriers), riders, eaters, and operations teams across the globe.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Lead the design and architecture of a high-performance streaming platform, prioritizing scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
2. Collaborate with several cross-functional teams to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
3. Develop and implement state-of-the-art streaming platform, enhancing quality, reliability and performance.
4. Optimize existing streaming infrastructure for efficiency, latency, and freshness.
5. Devise and implement solutions that seamlessly scale with the growing needs of our user base.
6. Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge exchange and continuous improvement

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
2. Experience coding using general purpose programming language (eg. C/C++, Java, Python, Go, C#)
3. Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence others within your team and outside your team.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. 8+ years of experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
2. Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 8+ years of full-time engineering experience.
3. Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
4. Comfortable dealing with system complexity
5. Proven experience of shipping high-quality product features on schedule and with high velocity
6. Great sense of ownership

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): Bangalore, India

Job ID: Uber-147663

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-10T00:32:10