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Sr Staff Engineer - Backend
Uber
Sunnyvale, USA
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Onsite
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Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend development and building world-class distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
- Proven ability to solve strategically important problems by leading organization-wide development and adoption of key frameworks and coding best practices.
- Experience foreseeing architectural problems or opportunities a year in advance and working with leadership to address them before they impact the business.
- Demonstrated track record of leading large-scale engineering projects through all lifecycle stages, from inception and requirement gathering to global productionization.
- Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, while overseeing the execution of complex incident management at an organizational level.
- Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.
- Demonstrated leadership in building strategic relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally an organization around a technical vision.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, Java, or Python with experience in real-time marketplace platforms requiring high consistency and global reliability.
- Experience building hardened developer tools, SDKs, and abstractions (e.g., streaming data with Flink/Kafka) used by hundreds of engineers.
- Proficiency in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes) at a massive global scale.
- Strategic architecture mindset: Ability to balance near-term execution with long-lasting engineering artifacts that improve reliability within an organization.
- Experience as a technical brand ambassador, serving as a representative for the organization to the broader internal and external technical community.
Responsibilities
- For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.
- You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
- Lead the design and implementation of highly available, resilient, and cost-efficient distributed systems that serve millions of users with strict sub-50ms latency requirements.
- Architect systems capable of handling 1M+ requests per second while maintaining 99.99% availability and strong consistency guarantees for critical financial and pricing flows.
- Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design to simplify integration for new lines of business and third-party partners.
- Build platform abstractions and developer tools that hide massive underlying complexity, enabling ML and product teams to iterate rapidly on core algorithms.
- Spearhead architectural transitions toward "Dual-rail" resiliency, ensuring every mission-critical payment or pricing flow has redundant processing options to maximize reliability.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Ops at the Director and VP levels to translate commercial requirements into scalable, hardened platform solutions.
- Own technical excellence by driving architecture reviews, identifying and reducing systemic technical debt, and raising the bar for observability and incident response across the organization.
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