Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

The Delivery Hydration Platform Team manages several essential services within the Uber Delivery tech stack. We manage millions of requests per second, ensuring that customers receive their data as quickly and efficiently as possible. We design and build systems to handle extreme request and data volumes and are experts in data ingestion flows and caching strategies. We are a backend platform team responsible for the health and scalability of Uber Delivery's most crucial data sets for our consumer facing application.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Lead projects to build and expand the systems within the Hydration Platform
2. Optimize large scale systems to save millions of dollars in compute costs
3. Serve as a leader of our team

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
2. 8+ years of full-time engineering experience
3. Experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
4. Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
5. Distributed Systems design experience
6. Mentorship and leadership experience for less experienced engineers
7. Experience being a tech lead on an engineering team

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Deep knowledge of Golang and its internal mechanics
2. Previous experience managing services that receive millions of requests per second
3. Experience with low level performance tuning for efficiency and latency

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$189,000 per year - CAD$210,000 per year.

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'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): Toronto, Canada

Job ID: Uber-149876

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-21T00:27:46