About the Role
Are you passionate about building intelligent, scalable systems that have a real impact on millions of people? Join us at Uber on the Earner Online Experience team, where we empower earners to achieve their financial goals by crafting seamless, personalized, and reliable offer experiences. Our team is at the forefront of creating and evolving systems that power how drivers receive offers, incentives, and promotions - at scale.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll play a key leadership role in shaping the architecture, driving technical excellence, and setting the long-term direction for systems that support critical components of Uber's earner platform. You'll collaborate with product, data science, and engineering partners to translate complex business goals into elegant, sustainable engineering solutions - while mentoring others and leading by example.
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What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Lead by Influence: Set the technical vision and roadmap for core systems that power personalized offer delivery and earner engagement.
- Architect Systems: Design and evolve backend systems to be scalable, reliable, and flexible enough to support future innovations.
- Drive Cross-Org Impact: Partner closely with platform, data, ML, and product teams across Uber to ensure cohesive and performant system design.
- Uphold Engineering Excellence: Champion high standards for design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
- Mentor and Uplift: Guide engineers across multiple teams, offering technical mentorship and fostering a culture of growth and accountability.
- Own Delivery: Take full ownership of projects from concept to production, ensuring timely execution and measurable impact.
- Advance Innovation: Identify technical opportunities and lead the charge in tackling complex infrastructure and product challenges using data-driven decision making.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 9+ years of professional software development experience, with a deep focus on backend systems and distributed architectures.
- Expertise in building scalable, resilient services using technologies such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Strong understanding of system design, data modeling, and performance tuning.
- Experience driving large-scale initiatives from inception to delivery across multiple teams or functions.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems and align multiple stakeholders on a cohesive technical direction.
- Experience with data-intensive products, including experimentation frameworks and analytics at scale.
- Strong operational mindset with experience in designing for availability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers at all levels and helping shape career growth for others.
- Familiarity with machine learning workflows, experimentation systems, and personalization infrastructure is a plus.
- Track record of delivering technically ambitious projects with measurable business or product outcomes.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.