Sr Staff Engineer

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in backend software development with distributed systems, infrastructure, or cloud platforms.
• Strong expertise in Go, Java, or similar backend languages, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and high-scale systems.
• Experience driving large-scale system modernization, performance optimizations, and deployment safety improvements.

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing and implementing highly available, efficient, and secure cloud-native architectures.
• Deep understanding of safe deployment strategies, workload automation, and resilience engineering.
• Proven expertise in scaling autoscaling solutions, ARM adoption, hybrid cloud, or GPU support for ML workloads.
• Ability to lead large technical initiatives and drive cross-team collaboration across platform, security, and infrastructure teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and evolve backend infrastructure to support Uber’s growing workloads, including deployment engines, autoscalers, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Lead safe deployment and rollback automation across stateless, stateful, and batch workloads, improving resilience and developer efficiency.
• Improve infrastructure security and compliance, including encryption-at-rest, ransomware mitigation, and cloud security best practices.
• Advance Uber’s modernization efforts, including Kubernetes migration, unified workload platforms, and PaaS improvements.
• Optimize Uber’s infrastructure efficiency, focusing on ARM adoption, autoscaling enhancements, and cost-effective compute allocation.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical strategy, ensuring Uber’s backend infrastructure remains cutting-edge, reliable, and scalable.

Perks and Benefits

• We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently.
• If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
• Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity.
• 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.